Mönchengladbach - Spectacular accident on Sunday evening: A police patrol car is after a chase with a scooter thief jumped into the Niers. A policewoman (31) was injured slightly.
The patrol had discovered the thieves according to witnesses - but the 17-year-old fled. About the Charles Street, he gloomily on the dirt path of a forest track.
There, then the accident: In a right-hander did not attack the brakes of the patrol car. So the police officers crashed four meters deep in the river bed of the kidney. Even the scooter thief fell, he fled on foot.
Later, the 17-year-old could be arrested, however. On the patrol car was a total loss.