The police fined several people on the night from Saturday to Sunday because they ignored a cordon on the Lage Witsiebaan in Tilburg. Three heavily damaged cars left havoc there after an escalated family dispute. A local police officer wrote down his frustration on social media: “And blame us.”
The police conducted an extensive investigation at the scene of the incident on Saturday night. Three damaged cars were left behind, hundreds of meters apart. Local residents heard loud bangs around 2 a.m.
A police spokesperson previously said that it was a family dispute that got out of hand. During the conflict, the drivers of the cars allegedly deliberately drove into each other.
Closed
It remained unclear for a long time what exactly had happened on the Lage Witsiebaan. The police hermetically sealed off the area for investigation. There was a significant scale-up: police units drove en masse through the neighborhood looking for those involved.
According to the police, the families involved have been at odds with each other for some time. “Every time this comes to an outburst.” There is still no trace of the drivers on Sunday afternoon.
Long night
The message from the police officer also shows that it was a long night. “How my last night was…..” he writes on social media. “Waiting, discussing, waiting more, trying to understand what happened, waiting.”
But the officer also had his hands full with bystanders, who seemed to have little understanding of the impeachment. “And give angry people a fine who do not understand the usefulness of a barrier tape and then use the cycle path with their car.”
Passers-by were confronted about their behavior. “When they heard the fine amount, they became angry because it was not properly indicated,” the officer wrote. “And then blame us.”
Ignore ribbon
Ignoring barriers by bystanders has long been a thorn in the side of the police. For example, things went wrong in March at the Kanaaldijk Noord in Son. A deceased person was found there, but passers-by did not care about the police tape.
“By ignoring this, you disrupt the police investigation, you may destroy crucial evidence, you may hinder the work of the emergency services and you may see things that you cannot remember,” local police officers emphasized at the time.
Traffic psychologist Gerard Tertoolen previously stated to Omroep Brabant that it is more common for people to consciously ignore these types of ‘obstacles’. “That is due to increasing individualism. People think: ‘I should just be able to get where I want’.”