Caught by police

Drunk driver flees the scene of an accident

A drunk driver crashed into a traffic sign. The man fled the scene, but the police caught up with him! 

A 52-year-old man from Klagenfurt Land looked too deeply into his glass and still got behind the wheel. On Tuesday evening, the drunk driver turned right from Universitätsstraße onto Südring in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In doing so, he lost control of the car and collided head-on with a traffic sign. Instead of stopping and alerting the police, he simply drove on and parked the badly damaged car in the Minimundus parking lot. 

The injured man then had his girlfriend pick him up there. But the Carinthian had probably not expected a police patrol to notice the car. And shortly afterwards, the officers were at the 52-year-old's front door. "An alcohol test showed that he was heavily intoxicated," confirmed the police. He has lost his license.