They identify the vehicle and have images of the driver who collided with a monolith from Expo ’92, on the Isla de la Cartuja in Seville, when he was participating in an illegal car race last Wednesday. The driver, whose accelerator pedal would have stuck, lost control of the vehicle and was about to run over a group of young people who were in the vicinity of the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSI) of the Seville University .
The accident, in the end, did not cause any injuries, but it did generate different videos that were published on the internet and that spread like wildfire among users, material that was tracked by the Police Social Networks team, which mobilized a group of investigators of road accidents to the place to carry out a visual inspection of the area in which they were able to collect various pieces of the wrecked car.
The investigation into what happened in the early hours of August 23 remains open, although the car has already been fully identified and there are clear images of the driver and his companion, who could face a possible reckless driving charge punishable by between 6 months and 2 years in prison, the deprivation of the right to drive motor vehicles and mopeds for a period of more than one and up to six years. These proceedings will be forwarded to the Specialized Prosecutor for Road Safety in Seville.
However, the fact that this time the race was settled without personal injury and with the intervention of the Police does not suggest that they will stop taking place. According to some Internet users, every Wednesday there are people who meet in the same place, in the Glorieta de Ingenieros, to put themselves to the test and get the most out of their cars, which, they say, are usually high-end.
"This is one of the pending issues that this government team has found and that has not been addressed for years by the previous team. A shock operation is already beginning to be designed to curb this type of behavior," he clarifies. a statement issued by the local administration.
For the moment, and luckily, everything has been a scare. The spectators who were about to be run over managed to react quickly alerted by the screams of others and they were jumping to one side and another to avoid being run over.
Of the race, there is only one signal and an informative poster knocked down but a long job ahead to avoid that next Wednesday, again, there is another concentration of vehicles whose drivers risk their lives and endanger the rest.
