The Local Police of Palma have arrested a young man for driving drunk, causing an accident while fleeing the scene and, later, assaulting an officer who caught him sleeping in his car. As reported by the body in a press release, the events occurred last Monday morning in the Gremi de Tintorers area.

The agents have explained that the 24-year-old driver collided with a garbage collection truck and fled without providing information.. Subsequently, the operators located the driver inside his car asleep at the wheel, for which they required the police presence.. When the agents arrived, the driver was still sound asleep and when they woke him up, he responded aggressively and attacked one of them, for which he was arrested..

In police stations and since he presented symptoms compatible with the intake of alcoholic beverages, the agents required the driver to carry out alcohol detection tests.. In the first, he gave a positive result of 1.19 milligrams of alcohol per liter of expired air (4.7 times more than allowed) and, in addition, he refused to take a second test..

At this point, the police officers explained to the young man that if he refused to take a second test, he would be charged with an alleged crime against road safety, although he continued to refuse.. In addition, when checking the data of the detainee, the loss of validity of the driving license was verified due to the total loss of points.