LOCAL POLICE in Malaga arrested a 26-year-old pregnant woman who was observed riding a small motorbike with her three young children on board.
The officers were on patrol in Calle Obispo Espejo, in Las Flores area of Malaga, when they saw a woman carrying out a dangerous manoeuvre on a motorbike, almost running over an elderly man who was on a pedestrian crossing. They began to follow her and, seeing the children on board, ordered her to stop. Instead, she carried on, across a crossroads into the path of a school bus which had to come to a sudden halt to avoid hitting the motorbike.
The police gave chase with lights blazing and sirens blaring, through the streets of Malaga, although keeping their distance to avoid harming the children. The woman still would not stop, but accelerated and began to zigzag between the cars in her way, turning her head to see if the police were still in pursuit.
It wasn’t until she reached Calle Manuel Gimenez Lombardo that she stopped, realising that the volume of traffic would make it impossible to escape.
The police found that two of the children, aged four and seven, were travelling in front of the woman holding on to the handlebars, one was standing and the other perched on the seat; the third child, aged nine, was on the back, behind his mother, who is heavily pregnant. All three children were carrying school bags and none had helmets. The motorbike was unstable and hard to handle, putting the children in obvious danger.
The woman, who was arrested and charged with reckless driving and refusing to stop, claimed that the children were late for school. |
