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The photo stopped on the highway “Fiat”: Ministry of Interior
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A police car patrol managed to stop a car moving in the opposite lane of the highway in the Pazardzhik region, said the spokesman of the local regional police directorate Miroslav Stoyanov.
This morning, a police patrol inspected a car on the 69th kilometer of the highway in the direction of Sofia. At the same time, the uniformed officers saw that in the adjacent lane, in the direction of Burgas, a Fiat car was moving at high speed against the oncoming traffic.
The police officers acted with lightning speed and with the lights and sound signals on, they drove parallel to the car moving in the opposite direction, constantly giving signals to the driver to stop. After about 3 km. The Fiat was stopped, but against the traffic, again in the lane to Plovdiv. In just a few minutes, police officers managed to stop all traffic on the highway until they managed to move the car moving in the opposite lane to a safe place in the emergency lane.
The subsequent check of the driver established that he was a 72-year-old man from the Pleven village of Sanadinovo, who currently lived in the Bratsigovo village of Byaga. He was disoriented, unable to give a meaningful explanation as to why he was driving in the oncoming traffic on the extremely busy Trakia highway. The driver is qualified. He was tested with a dredger and tested negative. An act under the Road Traffic Act was drawn up for him, and he and the car were handed over to his relatives to take him back home.
Before “24chasa” police officers commented that only a miracle prevented an unprecedented catastrophe, in which there would have been casualties.
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