On foot in the middle of the motorway… A motorist who had just caused a collision at the height of the Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines tollbooth, on the A10, fled by crossing the eight lanes of the motorway on foot .
Around 12:30 p.m. on Monday, while driving towards the province at the wheel of a large-displacement Mercedes, he overtook dangerously before hitting a vehicle, a few meters from the toll gate, one of the busiest in France.
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He suddenly left his vehicle and fled in the direction of the railway track which runs alongside the expressway.
The gendarmes of the motorway platoon triggered an alert device with dogs and helicopter but they finally found the driver a few minutes later, near the railway.
He was driving in a stolen vehicle in Saint-Nazaire
The man, believed to be of foreign origin and in his twenties, had no papers with him.
Placed in police custody in the premises of the Saint-Arnoult motorway platoon, he has not, for the time being, provided any information on his identity.
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The first investigations of the gendarmerie made it possible to discover that the vehicle driven by the young man at the time of the accident had been stolen at the end of last week in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique).