It was just before 8 pm on Wednesday that the police received an alert about a motorcycle driver who was suspected of being under the influence of alcohol. Shortly afterwards, a police patrol caught sight of the driver, and then tried to stop him.
— The driver chooses not to stop. A chase then begins, which you then choose to stop immediately in principle, for safety reasons, and instead follow at a distance, says police spokesperson Magnus Jansson Klarin.
The driver turns onto a county road just outside Enköping and shortly afterwards the man collides with another police car.
— The moment of the collision itself is still unclear, exactly what happened. It will of course be carefully investigated, says Jansson Klarin, who does not know if the police car was moving at the time of the collision.
The police officer in the car escaped physical injury but has not yet been heard from.
The motorcyclist was very badly injured in the accident and life-saving measures were started before an ambulance arrived and took him to hospital.