Responsible for a traffic accident which left two people injured, he was driving with 4.96 g of alcohol in his blood. “It is a medical feat to be able to stand up at such a rate! “Exclaims the public prosecutor at the Chartres court.
Eure-et-Loir: a Polish motorist drove with 4.96 grams
The Polish national is on trial by videoconference from the Orleans-Saran (Loiret) jail, where he was placed in pre-trial detention pending his trial in immediate appearance.
On Saturday May 23, 2020, around 3:45 p.m., he was driving his van on the RN12, near Goussainville.
“Our children are traumatized”
Motorists had noticed that the van was swerving. “I followed him. I told my wife to call the gendarmes because her driving was dangerous, “testified one of these motorists, in front of the gendarmes.
“For a moment, he moved away, and he hit the car in front of him from behind. His driver lost control. Her vehicle went off the road and she lay in the field. “
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In the crashed car was a couple, accompanied by their three young children. The driver and his partner were slightly injured. “But our children are traumatized,” they testified at the courtroom.
The person responsible for the accident tried to flee. But it was spotted a few hundred meters away. His van was parked on the side of the road, a flat tire.
“I drank a bottle of vodka”
“I stopped at a rest area and drank a bottle of vodka,” said the driver of the van. “I have been driving for twenty weeks, twenty hours a day. “
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Father of eight children, including a disabled little girl, he claims that his income is the only one in the family. “But you could have killed someone,” said the prosecutor.
He was sentenced to one year in prison with continued detention. He is no longer allowed to drive on French roads for two years.
Jacques Joannopoulos
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