When the gendarmes stopped his race near Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Hautes-Pyrénées), last May, the 65-year-old motorist had just rushed on them, driving in the wrong direction taking reckless risks, and causing a accident causing three injuries before fleeing on foot. The New Republic of the Pyrenees recounts in its edition of the day the trial, Monday before the criminal court of Tarbes, of this driver whose collection of traffic offenses does not stop at this refusal to comply, far from it. Because the man was driving under cannabis, without insurance, and above all, as he confirmed at the helm, he had never passed his license.
A first hit and run, a year earlier
The investigation, moreover, made it possible to confuse him in the context of another accident which occurred in Tarbes a year earlier: a motorist had knocked down a pedestrian on a protected passage and fled without helping him.
For all of his work, the court sentenced the sexagenarian to eighteen months in prison, twelve of which were suspended. He will spend the next six months at home, on an electronic bracelet.