A lorry driver was stopped in Seville, Spain, when he was driving the wrong way with a blood alcohol level above the legal limit in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The man drove around six kilometres in the opposite direction on the SE-30 motorway, which surrounds the southern Spanish city, according to Cadena SER.
The Southwest Traffic Management Centre, based in Seville, detected the vehicle and, monitoring it via video surveillance cameras, coordinated actions with a Guardia Civil vehicle, which managed to immobilise the vehicle at around 1.20am (00.20am in mainland Portugal) on Wednesday.
At the same time, warning lights were activated along the road, alerting other drivers to the danger in question.
The driver of the lorry was subjected to a blood-alcohol test and registered levels of ‘0.77 mg/l and 0.79 mg/l in the exhaled air, well above the established legal limit of 0.60 mg/l’, according to the Directorate-General for Traffic (DGT).
The driver is being investigated for committing an alleged offence against road safety, for driving the wrong way and for exceeding the legally established blood alcohol levels.
These offences carry possible prison sentences of between six months and two years and a driving licence revocation of between one and six years.
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