The accident happened on Saturday evening around 10.45 pm along the Dikkebusseweg, near Westouter. Shortly before, the police had started a chase near Ypres on a sports motorcycle with a French license plate.
The chase went via the Dikkebusseweg towards Heuvelland. Just past the intersection with Rodebergstraat, just before the village center of Loker, things went wrong.
