Toulouse. Hit and run at 150 km / h on the ring road: the couple were armed with a sawed-off shotgun
By Laurent Derne
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When the the police wanted to check him, at the wheel of his Peugeot, he quickly made his choice: above all, not to stop. He was around 5 a.m.this Thursday, September 8, 2022, and from Rangueil, the driver set off on the toulouse ring road.
He rushes on the ring road
The police “take charge” of him, to use the jargon, and the pursuit begins. The driver was driving at 150 km/h and took all the risks to unclamp them. Until engulfing a little too quickly at the exit Balma Gramont and hit a concrete culvert.
The two occupants, a couple in their thirties, were trying to hide in the thin surrounding vegetation. The 32 year old woman was found in possession of a box of cartridges.
sawed-off shotgun
the driver, 29 years oldwas trying to hide “a sawed-off long gun with a chambered cartridge”, from a police source. Ready to use, therefore.
Brought back into custody, the man explained that he wanted to flee the police because he had… “consumed alcohol”. Investigators will mainly focus on determining the origin of this weapon. And if it has already served in past misdeeds.
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