{"id":17458,"date":"2026-07-30T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/drunk-driver-smashes-six-vehicles-and-flees-scene-in-warsaw\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:28:46","slug":"drunk-driver-smashes-six-vehicles-and-flees-scene-in-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/drunk-driver-smashes-six-vehicles-and-flees-scene-in-warsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk Driver Smashes Six Vehicles and Flees Scene in Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heavily intoxicated 51-year-old woman in Warsaw&#8217;s Targ\u00f3wek district crashed her Lancia into six parked vehicles and a motorcycle before fleeing to her apartment on the night between Saturday and Sunday.  <\/p>\n<h4>Abandoned Lancia Found on Poborza\u0144ska Street<\/h4>\n<p>In the night from Saturday to Sunday in the Targ\u00f3wek area, a female Lancia driver damaged several parked cars and a motorcycle before abandoning her vehicle and fleeing the scene. Police used a tracking dog to trace her to her apartment and arrest her.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:30 on Saturday, Targ\u00f3wek police received a report about an abandoned Lancia on Poborza\u0144ska Street. The vehicle was damaged and lacked a front wheel. It was discovered that the driver had damaged six cars parked on \u0141abiszy\u0144ska Street and a motorcycle before fleeing, prompting a search using a tracking dog.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, the capital&#8217;s Traffic Department crew conducted an inspection of the abandoned Lancia at the scene before securing it in a tow yard.<\/p>\n<h4>Police Trace Suspect to Rembieli\u0144ska Street Apartment<\/h4>\n<p>Law enforcement quickly reached an apartment located on Rembieli\u0144ska Street where the sought-after woman was hiding. An additional crew from the North Praga police headquarters arrived as well. The 51-year-old refused to open the door, but after being informed about a fire brigade intervention, she let the officers inside.<\/p>\n<p>Officers immediately smelled alcohol on the woman and tested her with a breathalyzer. It showed that the 51-year-old had nearly one promil of alcohol in her exhaled air. The woman explained that she wanted to drive home after a party at a female friend&#8217;s house. Police detained her.<\/p>\n<h4>Blood Tests Confirm High Blood Alcohol Concentration<\/h4>\n<p>Subsequent breathalyzer tests performed by officers at the Bia\u0142o\u0142\u0119ka police station showed over two promils of alcohol in the 51-year-old&#8217;s system. Officers transported her to a hospital, where blood was drawn to test for the presence of intoxicants. The woman sobered up in the police detention facility.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, police interrogated the 51-year-old and presented her with a charge of driving a vehicle while intoxicated. She faces up to 3 years in prison for this crime, and an additional penalty for causing a traffic collision, the amount of which will be decided by a court.<\/p>\n<h4>Ongoing Legal Proceedings<\/h4>\n<p>Supervision over the activities performed in this proceeding is conducted by the District Prosecutor&#8217;s Office Warsaw-Praga North.<\/p>\n<p>KRP VI \u2013 Bia\u0142o\u0142\u0119ka, Praga P\u00f3\u0142noc Targ\u00f3wek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heavily intoxicated 51-year-old woman in Warsaw&#8217;s Targ\u00f3wek district crashed her Lancia into six parked vehicles and a motorcycle before fleeing to her apartment on the night between Saturday and Sunday. Abandoned Lancia Found on Poborza\u0144ska Street In the night from Saturday to Sunday in the Targ\u00f3wek area, a female Lancia driver damaged several parked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}