2 - 8 November 2017
By Kat Ashton Investigators have seized €2 million worth of cocaine after a high-speed car chase that began in Villena on the Alicante-Madrid motorway. The police were conducting routine security checks in Villena on Sunday afternoon when the driver of a black Seat Leon sped straight through the checkpoint. The car raced off down the E903 motorway towards Elda and police officers immediately gave chase. Several police cars pursued the culprit and allegedly fired their weapons into the air in an attempt to stop the driver from fleeing. The high-speed chase went for more than 20 kilometres and only ended when one officer rammed his vehicle into the side of the car when they reached Elda. The police car was destroyed in the collision but no one was seriously hurt. Police arrested the 53-year-old driver and discovered 10 kilos of cocaine stashed inside the car, which was estimated to have a street value SIXTEEN of Spain’s 190 road accident blackspots are in the Valencian Community. A total of 415 victims died or were injured on these dangerous stretches of the region’s roads over the last five years found a survey by European Associat-
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the A-77a in San Vicente where 81 victims were involved in 57 accidents in this period, the AEA said. More than 33,000 vehicles use this road each day but it has neither fixed nor mobile radar traps, the association added.
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