Drunk driver invaded bike lane and ran over two people fleeing in Envigado

A video is circulating through social networks in which it is observed that those who were traveling on the Envigado bike path this Sunday, March 20, got a great fright because a driver, apparently in a state of intoxication, invaded the sports and recreational space on the middle of public roads, causing injuries to two people.

“Drunk on the Envigado bike path, it almost makes a tragedy, in these cases we need to do something exemplary and that this type of people do not go unpunished. We need more driver education,” said the user identified as Juan Trochas on Twitter along with a video showing what happened.

The images show that several cyclists confront the driver of the vehicle and ask him to turn it off and get off, but the owner of the car does not get out and leave the place, running over two people who were in the area. The victims were a woman who was mobilizing on the bike path and a transit agent, who was in the sector doing control.

It is noteworthy that those affected were treated and taken to a care center in the municipality south of Medellín, but there is still no official part of the severity and condition of the people who were hit.

This fact has generated all kinds of reactions from both cycloruta users and other citizens, who reject this type of action that endangers the lives of bicycle users and other passers-by.

“This drunkard, a potential killer, almost generated a tragedy on a recreational bike path in Envigado,” commented one Twitter user.

For his part, the mayor of Envigado, Braulio Espinosa, spoke out on the same social network. The local president stated that “what happened this morning on the bike path in the municipality of Envigado becomes a regrettable fact, which we deeply reject and that, in addition, we hope that it will reach the last consequences and apply the full weight of the law.”

He added: “A car enters the bike lane and causes injury to a woman, but also to a public servant, a traffic agent who was on the spot helping to control the bike path. A place traveled by families and children, who play sports as a family”.

Espinosa said that events like that cannot happen again in the country. “We have fully identified the vehicle, the license plates of the car, the details of the owner and we have deployed an operation throughout the city to find this car and we hope that all the authorities will help us do so to set an example from Envigado for Antioquia and the country,” said the mayor.

“This cannot continue to happen and it must materialize with the full weight of the law and the firmness of authority,” he added. The local president requested support from all the authorities of the Aburrá Valley to help find the vehicle.

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