An allegedly drunk driver was chasing the police over 40 kilometers through the Ruhr area.
The journey only ended when the driver collided with a guardrail.
The police car driving behind him drove into the SUV, as the police announced on Tuesday.
The driver was injured and treated in hospital.
Gelsenkirchen / Neukirchen-Vluyn - Another patrol car had already been damaged when the fleeing driver touched him on the side.
After evidence of a drunk driving, the police wanted to control the 42-year-old according to the information in Gelsenkirchen.
But the man ran over, collided with a fence and fled via Autobahn 40 in the direction of Essen.
Police colleagues there went into pursuit.
Neither stop signals nor flashing lights and sirens stopped the man.
In a construction site near Mülheim, he had run around at least one traffic obstacle.
Presumably due to an axle damage, he lost control at the Neukirchen-Vluyn exit behind Duisburg and collided with the guardrail.
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