This Sunday, October 9, around 3 a.m., the police are on patrol near a nightclub in Albertville. At the exit of the nightclub car park, a young driver sees the police, he then decides to turn off the headlights of the vehicle and leave at full speed on the RN 90, located nearby.
This young man takes all the risks, drives at more than 150 km / h and when he finds himself at the toll of the A 43, Saint-Hélène-sur-Isère. At this moment, he panics, loses control of his vehicle which hits the guardrail just before the toll. The young man then takes exit 24 Frontenex in the opposite direction and ends his mad dash in a dead end at Frontenex, where he bangs concrete planters and gets stuck.
When they arrived at the scene, the Albertville police noticed that the people in the vehicle fled into the woods. According to the first elements of the investigation, they were five in all in the car. The driver aged 20 years and one of the passengers, aged 17 years, were arrested and taken into custody this Sunday morning. The other three people in the vehicle are still on the run.
The first drug and alcohol tests carried out on the driver were revealed negatives. However, he was driving without a license. “VSThe 20-year-old was under judicial control for driving without a license and aggravated violence“says the Albertville prosecutor’s office.