Media personality Tom Waes was 5 times over the limit and not wearing a seatbelt when he crashed his vintage Porsche on the Antwerp Orbital
The television presenter Tom Waes had a blood alcohol level of 2.44 grammes of alcohol per litre of blood and was not wearing a seatbelt when he crashed his vintage Porsche into an impact attenuator vehicle on the Antwerp Orbital Motorway last November.
The news that he had consumed the equivalent of 3,5 litres of standard-strength beer or more than 2 bottles of wine before getting behind the wheel of his car first appeared in the daily ‘Het Laatste Nieuws’ and has since been confirmed by VRT News sources. Tom Weas will appear in court on 5 May.
On 29 November 2024 one of Flanders’ best-known television presenters Tom Waes was seriously injured in an accident on the Antwerp Orbital Motorway. He was on his way home from an evening out in Antwerp City Centre. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
It was already known that Tom Waes was over the limit when the accident happened. However, it has now been revealed that he had 2.44g of alcohol per litre of blood in his body, this is around 5 times over the legal limit of 0.5g/l. 2.44g/l equates to around 14 standard units of alcohol.
Court appearance in May
Tom Waes will appear in court in Antwerp on 5 May. There he will answer charges of drink-driving, the involuntary wounding of a road maintenance worker that was inside the impact attenuator vehicle when Tom Waes’ car hit it and failing to wear a seatbelt.
The mangled wreckage of Tom Waes’ Porsche 911 Carrera (photo above) was auctioned for 37,000 euro at the end of February. Some of the proceeds of the sale will go to charity.