20 minutes: tractor on the highway as a ghost driver

eIn a state of intoxication, a truck driver drove for nearly 20 minutes on a Hesse highway as a ghost driver. As the police then informed her, drove the 47-year-old vehicle Saturday night with her semi-trailer near Griesheim in the wrong direction on the A67 motorway. He was on the fast track, changed to the intersection of Darmstadt on the A5 and continued to accelerate.

Time and again, we have encountered dangerous situations with oncoming vehicles. A car squeezed on the side of the truck. The 32-year-old woman driving and the man next to her were slightly injured. Several cars rolled on elongated debris. The damage goes in the tens of thousands.

The driver of the truck did not care about the accident nor the blue lights and sirens of the police cars that accompanied him. It was only after a phantom race of about 21 kilometers that the man stopped his trailer and went out. The 47 year old was arrested. In the driver's cabin, the police found two bottles of whiskey, one empty and the other half full.