A police commander was knocked down and seriously injured during a road check Wednesday, May 24 in Vienna. Two people were arrested after fleeing.

The accident occurred in the early afternoon on a roundabout in Vienna while several police officers were trying to carry out a check on a car. It forced the passage and hit the policeman, whose head hit the windshield. He was hospitalized in Lyon, suffering from "a head trauma and an open fracture to a leg". His prognosis is not engaged, according to police.