Driver skips on the run from police, POPs against pole and is hurled from car

A man of 34 years, with an unknown address, wanted to avoid a police control on the Mountain Men and drove at high speed of the control direction Keiberg. Something beyond the Oakstreet ran it wrong and drove the man on an electricity pole. He was hurled from his car and was killed instantly.

His fellow passenger, a lady living in Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, hit in the accident slightly injured and was transferred to the Hospital of Diest.

"Dangerous road" the electricity pole knakte as a result of the battle and ended up on the roadway. It took until 8 o'clock in the morning before the road could be freed. "De Keiberg is not immediately a dangerous path," said Mayor Manu Claes (CD&V). "Therefore, relatively few accidents happen. But when you with high speed by a street sweeping, there may be an accident happen everywhere. "

It is not yet clear why the car driver tried to avoid the police control.

Source: http://www.hln.be/ editorial photo: Kos