Police officers were sent to the accident site in Włodawa, located near the border of Poland and Ukraine, after no one answered when calling back that number, reports “TVP World”.
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Upon arrival, officers found an abandoned crashed Porsche, but neither the driver nor the passenger was nearby. According to senior inspector Bożena Szymańska, the police identified the owner of the phone that made the emergency call and the owner of the car, and soon found both men walking along the road.
The 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen who was behind the wheel of the Porsche was intoxicated. The breathalyzer showed more than 2 per mille,” said the officer.
Banned from driving for life
Checking police databases revealed that the man had been detained multiple times before for drunk driving, and he was also subject to a lifetime ban on driving vehicles.
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Moreover, the suspect was wanted under three warrants, and the Porsche he was driving did not have a valid technical inspection.
The driver was detained, and the car was taken to a police-secured vehicle lot. The Włodawa court imposed a preventive measure on the man – detention. He faces up to five years in prison.