A motorist was arrested by the Public Security Police Force (PSP) for dangerous driving on Amizade Bridge during the early hours of Sunday morning, the PSP informed in a press conference held yesterday at the police headquarters.
According to the PSP spokesperson the police received a report around 4 a.m. of a driver in a white car making his way from Taipa to Macau driving in the wrong lane.
Officers were sent to the location but could not find the referred vehicle.
A further investigation that resorted to the utilization of security cameras on the bridge revealed that a few minutes before 4 a.m. a white car driving in direction of Taipa made a U-turn on the bridge and then drove on the wrong side of the road for about 3 minutes in the direction of Macau.
If that situation was not serious enough, the driver then made another U-turn recovering its original direction.
Through the vehicle registration the police were able to track down the owner and driver who was then interrogated by authorities.
The motorist, who admitted the unusual maneuver, told the authorities that while on the bridge he had decided to meet a friend back in Macau. A few minutes later he had given up on that idea and so made another U-turn and headed back to Taipa.
Further investigation revealed that the driver had consumed and was under the influence of methamphetamines (“ice”).
The PSP also found that the driver and vehicle owner, a local resident in his 20s, already possessed an extensive criminal record for drug consumption and trafficking, and also a traffic condemnation for being involved in a “hit-and-run” traffic accident.
He was yesterday transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) on the accusations of dangerous driving and consumption of forbidden psychotropic substances.
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