Inappropriate Alcohol Testing of Child After Accident: Ghent Police Apologizes and Investigates

2023-11-29 19:52:00

The latter, however, recognized that it was “perhaps not appropriate” to have the child breathe and indicated that it was investigating the circumstances of this check.

In principle, the police automatically subject anyone involved in an accident with injuries to an alcohol test, whether or not there are signs of intoxication. “There isn’t really a threshold for age. It’s in all parties’ interests to be clear about that. And blowing is less invasive than a blood test.” explains the Ghent police.

But in this case, the girl’s age was very young and the authorities recognize that in this case, it was probably inappropriate to carry out this examination.

Police apologized to the child and his parents and said they were available for an interview with social workers.

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