A driver has been arrested in Trapagaran after escaping a checkpoint and colliding with an Ertzaintza patrol

A 51-year-old man was arrested yesterday by the Ertzaintza in Trapagaran on charges of an alleged crime of an attack on law enforcement officials. The person involved fled a traffic check in a van and collided with one of the patrols following him, resulting in the transfer of one officer to a hospital, while two others also required health care.

The events took place at 6.15 p.m. yesterday, Monday, on the BI-3745 road at a preventive alcohol check set up by agents of the Bizkaia Territorial Traffic Unit in Trapagaran, when a van approached the checkpoint and, after stopping, the driver suddenly resumed its march and avoided the device at high speed.

Two patrols pursued the van and one of the police vehicles managed to overtake it and force the driver to stop, while the driver accelerated backwards and intentionally collided with the other car of the Ertzaintza, which was taken by two officers and suffered various injuries, one of which was taken by ambulance to the hospital and two others received health care as a result of the incident.

The officers of the Traffic Unit identified the driver involved, who had recently been found to have carried out similar activities, removed his driver's licence for the loss of all points and arrested him for an alleged offence of attack on law enforcement officials, and opened proceedings for an alleged offence against road safety.

The 51-year-old detainee has 16 previous arrests by the Ertzaintza.