2023-11-21 17:30:00
Werner Snoeck is the hero of the day at Saint-Nicolas in East Flanders.
The former dockworker may be 77 years old, but he managed to sprint past a young 19-year-old driver who had fled after an accident against a wall on his property.
“I didn’t hesitate for a moment and set off after him. About 150 meters later, I was able to catch up with him. He had the intelligence not to resist,” he declared to our colleagues at HLN.
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Werner and his wife Marie-Louise were already sleeping when they were suddenly awakened around 1:30 a.m. by a huge bang, followed by a crash of glass.
“I didn’t even have to look in the living room to know what had happened, because the pieces of stone were going down into the hallway of our apartment,” Werner said. “I immediately rushed outside, with my pants on and no shoes. »
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Thanks to the license plate, the police could have found the driver. “But you never know if it’s a stolen vehicle,” Werner said. “I hope everything is okay with the insurance, because the damage to the apartment is very significant. The car hit the wall where my computer table is. Even the heater was ripped out of the wall. If I had been sitting there, I might not have survived. »
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