Yet everything seemed to unfold without resistance. At 3:30 p.m. this Sunday, November 20, gendarmes from the Saint-Jean-de-Losne brigade and soldiers from the Psig (gendarmerie surveillance and intervention platoon) were preparing to check a motorist on board. a red Toyota Yaris, which was driving at high speed in the vicinity of the town of Auvillars-sur-Saône.
The driver first stopped in a parking lot on the edge of the D996, but suddenly took off when the gendarmes got out of their vehicle.
Peaks at 160 km / h on a secondary road
A whirlwind departure in the direction of Dijon, still on the departmental 996, which forced the men of Psig to chase the vehicle. Throughout his journey, he has, according to the gendarmes, driven at high speed between 110 and 140 km / hour in his crossing of small towns, even reaching 160 km / h in some straight lines.
Arrived in the city of Dijon by avenue du Mont-Blanc, he continued to play cat and mouse with the soldiers in the university district, before being arrested at 3:50 p.m., rue Févret. The man, who was alone in the vehicle, also displayed a license defect. To establish a “danger to the life of others”, a call for witnesses was launched.
Thus, all motorists or inhabitants of the municipalities crossed by the red Yaris, some of whom, according to the gendarmes, had to park or move aside to let the vehicle pass while it was driving openly, are invited to call the brigade. of the Saint-Jean-de-Losne gendarmerie, which is in charge of the investigation jointly with the Psig, at 03.80.77.98.17.
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