Driver in Wels stopped after positive alcohol control!

Driver in Wels stopped after positive alcohol control!

A spectacular incident occurred in Wels on January 3, 2025, which took its course around midnight on Salzburger Straße, at the intersection to Zeileisstrasse. A traffic patrol wanted to stop a suspicious driver who lined up behind the patrol car. But the driver had other plans. Suddenly he turned into the porcelain passage at a petrol station and tried to escape the police by fleeing. How meinzirk.at reported, led to a rapid persecution that the handlebar finally bent into the Hinterschweigstrasse and was forced to drive to the right side of the road to make room for oncoming traffic.

The officials overtook the driver and stopped him by skillful maneuvering in front of his vehicle. When he got out, he immediately handed over the vehicle key to the officials and stated that he had not noticed that he should stop. A alkomatt test carried out showed a positive result, which meant that the driver was under the influence of alcohol. The driver's license was then temporarily withdrawn and he was prohibited from continuing. This once again illustrates the dangers of alcohol consumption at the wheel, a topic that is not only important in Austria. In this context, the term "handlebar" describes the driver of a vehicle, a word that comes from German language use and is used in many official documents how dict.cc explained.