Saarbrücken/Merzig: On Halloween (October 31, 2022), officers from the West Traffic Service conducted spot checks on road users in Dillingen, Schmelz, and Merzig and initiated numerous criminal proceedings.
Immediately before the checkpoint on Konrad-Adenauer-Allee in Dillingen, a 35-year-old man with a two-year-old child in the front passenger seat turned his car around and fled from the officers. He was eventually apprehended and checked in Beckingen. It turned out that the man had not held a driver's license for eight years and was driving the car under the influence of intoxicating substances.
At a checkpoint in Schmelz, the officers stopped a family car, including a five-year-old child among the occupants. The driver was under the influence of drugs. In both cases, after the prohibition of further driving, the search of the vehicles, and blood samples taken from the drivers, notifications were sent to the driver licensing authority and the responsible youth welfare offices.
In Merzig, the traffic police stopped two drivers aged 31 and 34 who were driving their vehicles without a valid driver's license. The presented Syrian and Iraqi driver's licenses were no longer valid, and both had to end their journeys. Subsequently, the officers identified a 28-year-old man who was driving his car under the influence of narcotics. The Swedish national visiting Germany was also prohibited from continuing to drive and had a blood sample taken.
