Man crashes into a traffic island at high speed and takes aim … (Hooglede)

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A driver wreaked havoc along the Ieperstraat in Hooglede on Saturday evening. He hit his Audi A6 at high speed on a traffic island, rammed a few trees and a van and trailer parked on the side. The man was seriously injured.

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“We heard a loud bang around 8.30 pm,” says one of the neighbors who rushed out in pajama pants. “The damage turned out to be enormous. The speed at which the driver hit the traffic island must have been much too high. All the trees have been uprooted, the debris is all around and the trailer was catapulted against a lighting pole. ”

The man drove his Audi A6 on the Ieperstraat from Sleihage towards Hooglede. At Akkerstraat he noticed too late a traffic island in the middle of the road and rammed the trees and two cones of light at high speed. He flew over the traffic island and a few dozen meters further on the right side of the road came across a trailer attached to a parked van.

Perimeter by drone

The seriously injured driver was trapped in his vehicle and had to be freed by the fire brigade. That took almost 45 minutes. The emergency services provided the first care on the spot and then took the man to the AZ Delta Hospital in Rumbeke. Due to the accident, the Ieperstraat was completely closed to all traffic for several hours. This attracted the necessary audience, with or without a mouth mask, and the police had to set up a perimeter to keep about thirty people at a safe distance and to let the emergency services do their work.

The police also used a drone to collect additional images from the air that are useful for the findings. The fire brigade was busy for a while to clear up all the debris and to clean the road again.

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