Around 6.40pm on Saturday, a person witnessed an accident involving two cars on Route d’Esch in Belvaux and alerted the police, stating that the motorist responsible for the collision appeared to be drunk. Although both drivers agreed to drive to a nearby petrol station to resolve the situation without interrupting traffic, the man responsible for the crash suddenly drove off and escaped the scene.
At 8.30pm, police found the responsible vehicle stationed at a car park in Niederkorn. The report states that the man had crashed his vehicle into a concrete block and that his alcohol test showed close to twice the permitted level.
Nevertheless, the driver resisted the arrest, insulted the officers, and even threatened them with a screwdriver he grabbed from the glove compartment. Since he represented a danger to himself and others, police confined him to an arrest cell overnight.
The police also conducted routine alcohol checks by order of the prosecutor’s office. From 11pm to 3am, officers stopped a total of 108 motorists on Boulevard Charles de Gaulle and on Rue de Luxembourg in Esch-sur-Alzette. Five tests came back positive and two licenses were revoked at the scene.
One driver attempted to avoid the police check by driving off towards Rue Sydney Thomas. Here, the vehicle came off the road and crashed. All four passengers fled the scene, but officers were able to locate all of them soon after. Although only one of them suffered injuries, the car was a write-off. The driver’s alcohol test came back positive, which is why the police awarded a provisional driving ban.
According to the latest police reports, alcohol-related accidents also took place in Dudelange, Gasperich, and Schwebsingen last night. In all three cases, officers revoked the driving license.
