A 56-year-old Latvian was killed in a traffic accident that occurred overnight from Saturday to Friday in Ophoven near Kinrooi, Limburg province, local police said on Saturday.
After crashing into the back of a trailer along the road, the Dutch-registered Audi came to an end once morest a tree on Venlosesteenweg in Ophoven. In the car, the police found an occupant, a 56-year-old man of Latvian nationality. He succumbed to his injuries, despite the intervention of the emergency services.
According to the Nieuwsblad, two other people were seriously injured. But there were a total of five people in the vehicle, according to our colleagues. The last two occupants of the damaged car fled following the collision. We learn this Saturday that one of them might have been apprehended on Friday evening. He was auditioned.
The circumstances of the fatal collision remain unclear. A witness who attended the scene explained that he had seen one of the occupants “quietly tying his shoelaces then leaving”. A traffic expert was sent to the scene to make the usual findings.
