Overview
- Regional broadcasters ran liveblogs on 27–28 December compiling accidents, fires and crimes across several provinces.
- In Rotterdam, multiple cars burned and an Audi’s hood exploded in Feijenoord, which firefighters suspect involved heavy illegal fireworks; no injuries were reported.
- Utrecht recorded a car gutted by fire in Overvecht and a rooftop blaze in Oudwijk, with residents briefly outside before returning indoors, according to the VRU.
- Police arrested three burglary suspects in Abcoude after an alert 112 call, and the EOD examined explosive materials and illegal fireworks found in a house in Heeze.
- The N421 crash victim near Odijk was identified as an 85-year-old woman from Alphen aan den Rijn, and Rotterdam police are searching for four or five suspects in a phone-shop robbery on Nieuwe Binnenweg.