Four injured after road-rage incident in Ostend involving van threat

Updated: 29 June 2026, 00:00 UTC. OOSTENDE, 29 June 2026 — Four people were injured after a verkeersagressie incident in Ostend in which the alleged perpetrator threatened to run a victim over with a van, according to Het Nieuwsblad. The report identifies the case as a local traffic-aggression incident, not a general collision, and says the threat involved a bestelwagen. No official public statement from Oostende police or the West Flanders prosecutor’s office was found in open sources at publication time. Belgium Pulse is therefore attributing the incident details to Het Nieuwsblad and treating further legal qualification, suspect status and injury severity as pending. For readers in Ostend, the practical point is straightforward: the case concerns alleged violence linked to a traffic conflict, so any witnesses, dashcam users or nearby residents with information should use official police contact routes rather than sharing unverified claims online. Local Police Ostend lists its police office at Lijndraaiersstraat 5 and publishes contact details through its official site. Statbel’s latest road-safety release, published on 23 June 2026, shows that Belgium recorded 36,968 road traffic accidents with casualties in 2025 and 45,464 total casualties, underlining that incidents with injuries remain a major public-safety issue even when the alleged trigger is interpersonal aggression rather than ordinary driver error.