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The man crashed into the shop window - then his ID card was gone.
Polizei Basel-Landschaft
A 98-year-old driver caused a spectacular accident in Sissach BL on Monday evening. The man drove over the hood of a parked car and finally came to a standstill in the window of a store.
A 98-year-old driver caused an unusual accident in Sissach (BL) on Monday evening. According to the Basel-Landschaft police, the senior citizen was driving on the main road coming from Gelterkinden.
At the traffic circle at the Hauptstrasse/Gelterkinderstrasse junction, he lost control of his vehicle for as yet unexplained reasons. On exiting the traffic circle, the car hit a grass verge, skidded across the road and briefly took off. It grazed the hood of a parked car before crashing into the window front of a store.
The driver was lucky: he was uninjured. However, his driver's license was revoked on the spot.
