He drove into a historic chandelier on Konstytucji Square, the car overturned

As she reported in an interview with Contact 24 reader, the incident occurred early Sunday morning.

– The report was received at around 6 a.m. Two fire brigades were dispatched to the scene – said the officer on duty at the Municipal Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Warsaw. – The driver of the passenger car lost control of the car, as a result of which the car overturned and hit one of the old, historic lamp posts at Konstytucji Square. The man was detained by the police – he added.

We asked the police about the rollover. – No one was hurt. However, the driver was intoxicated, he had 0.87 milligrams per liter of alcohol in his system (about 1.8 per mille – ed.). The firefighters put the car back on its wheels – Jacek Wiśniewski from the press team of the Warsaw Police Headquarters told us.

The footage shows parts of the wrecked car scattered across the square and firefighters trying to put the car back on its wheels with a rope. There were no major difficulties. At this time of day, there is little traffic in the capital.

“A candelabra is a large, standing, multi-branched candlestick, made mainly of metal, and also a decorative, multi-branched lantern. Candlesticks, called candelabra, were already known in ancient times. At the end of the 17th century, two-branched candelabra were fashionable, in the 18th century three-branched, and later multi-branched (…). The candelabra at Plac Konstytucji are eight-branched and for almost seventy years, they have been pleasing the eyes of residents and guests of the capital after dark” – we can read in the social media of the PoWarszawsku profile dedicated to Warsaw.