Filling drivers flee from the police and endangers passers -by in Vienna!

Filling drivers flee from the police and endangers passers -by in Vienna!

In the night of Sunday there was a dramatic chase in Vienna when an unknown driver fled to the police. The driver approached Vorgartenstrasse in Leopoldstadt, while driving against the direction of travel and endangering passers-by, including an e-scooter driver and a cyclist. This reports vienna.at .

police spokeswoman Julia Schick announced that the driver did not respond to the civil servants' stops and instead expressed the accelerator pedal. During his escape, he several times exceeded the permissible maximum speed and exposed himself and other road users.

escape and arrest

The chase ended in a dead end, where the driver and two passengers jumped out of the vehicle and climbed on foot. Only the 17-year-old passenger could be interviewed by the police. The latter stated that his sister's car belonged and he knows the driver only fleetingly. In addition, several technical defects and objects were found during a search of the car that indicate addictive substances.

The Viennese police have started the investigation and is looking for further information on the fleeting driver and his accomplices.

e-scooter in society

e-scooter are increasingly present in the cities, but surveys show that their use in certain regions is still limited. According to a statista survey, 10 % of those surveyed stated that they had used an e-scooter in the past 12 months, while it was 8 % in Austria and France. In comparison in India and in Finland, 15 % e-scooter use, while China leads the top of use with 16 %, as hu-dortmund.de

The incidents related to e-scooters are not always positive. In September 2024, a suspect fled after several arson attacks on an e-scooter in Berlin. The suspect was recorded in the months before when he set vehicles on the Friedrich Olbricht-Damm. The Berlin police asks the population for information on the identity of the man, with pictures and videos being published for support. Further details can be read here: tagefiegel.de .