Drunk driver crashes into two police cars at Palma airport
Saturday, September 13th, 2014
The offender was three times over the drink drive limit when his car mounted the pedestrian area in the departures zone. Â All vehicles involved suffered extensive damage.
The 22 year old man was arrested last weekend after crashing into a road sign, two national police patrol cars and a motorcycle. He was driving at the Son Sant Joan airport while heavily intoxicated.
The driver was three times over the maximum alcohol limit and caused extensive damage but luckily didn’t cause any harm to anybody.  The suspect was arrested for violating road safety. The incident occurred last Saturday at around seven in the morning at the departures area of Son Sant Joan.
National Police agents who were at Palma airport alerted Local Palma Police that there had been a traffic accident and requested their presence. Â When officers arrived at the scene they were approached by National Police, who told them that an apparently drunk or drugged driver had collided with two patrol cars, a motorcycle and a traffic sign.
The suspect who was driving a Volkswagen Golf commenced through and lost control, according to police investigations. The car mounted the curb and careered along for several meters before crashing into a road sign that ended up falling on the floor and then crashed against two official vehicles of the National Police and a motorcycle.
The driver continued on his way and came to rest about 500 meters from the crash site. Â Although the area was very busy with passengers entering the airport fortunately nobody was hurt. Â Local police identified the suspect as a 22-year-old resident from Son Servera, and gave him a breathalyzer test.
The result  was 0.68 milligrams per liter of exhaled air, almost triple the maximum limit allowed. The Spanish limit is 0.25 mg/l or 0.15 mg/l if you are a learner driver, i.e. within the first 12 months of obtaining the driving license. So he was arrested for violating road safety.
Both of the two police vehicles and the motorcycle that the car crashed into suffered extensive damage, still awaiting assessment, and were removed.
A bus driver hits another bus driver
At the end of August a bus driver assaulted another bus driver from another bus company during the morning at Palma’s Son Sant Joan Airport.
The alleged aggressor punched the victim. The incident occurred in the morning on the 31st of August in the area where the buses park at the bus terminal.
Apparently the origin of the dispute was a traffic discussion when one of the drivers protested at the way he had just been overtaken.  The other driver didn’t like the criticisms and responded by striking and injuring the other driver.
