A 35-year-old French driver suspected of being responsible for the accident of a BlaBlacar bus in which two people were killed on Sunday on a Belgian motorway was imprisoned on Tuesday April 12 in Belgium, announced the public prosecutor’s office in Antwerp (North ).
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“The bus driver was taken into custody by the investigating judge and will appear before the council chamber on Friday“Wrote the prosecution on his Twitter account. This court will have to rule on a possible extension of the pre-trial detention. Monday, the day after the accident which left two dead and ten seriously injured, the prosecution had indicated that it would demand the imprisonment of the driver, within the framework of an investigation opened for manslaughter, involuntary assault and battery, driving under the influence of drugs and lack of control of the vehicle. A saliva test, the result of which has yet to be confirmed by a blood test, showed that the latter was probably driving under the influence of narcotics. According to the prosecution,he is known in France for drug-related offenses“.
30 travelers
The accident occurred on Sunday at midday on the E19 motorway near Schoten, near Antwerp, towards the Netherlands. For an as yet undetermined reason, a red bus with the BlaBlacar logo, registered in France, deviated from its traffic lane then hit a concrete barrier, before lying on its side, the windshield burst. According to witnesses and CCTV footage, no other vehicle was involved, and the drive off the road was “graduallybefore hitting the guardrail.
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The bus, which made the Paris-Lille-Amsterdam connection, was carrying 30 passengers aged 16 to 39: 17 French, three Americans, two Germans, two Colombians, two Mexicans, two Canadians, an Italian and a Croat. The two killed are a 17-year-old Frenchwoman and a 29-year-old Colombian, the prosecution said on Monday, without detailing the nationalities of the injured. For five of the 10 seriously injured, the vital prognosis was still engaged on Monday. The prosecution did not communicate again on this point on Tuesday. According to the BlaBlacar platform, which said to itself “deeply touched” by the drama on Sunday, the bus was chartered by the company VIC, the partner operating this Paris-Amsterdam link.
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