Following the Danish example, the police in Austria go after crazy drivers. A BMW was pulled over because the speed was 1 km/h too high. Now the owner owes his father DKK 223,000.
A 20-year-old man from Vienna has had his BMW confiscated and is now facing several financial slaps.
In April 2024, he was stopped by the police when he did 136 km/h in a 50 zone. And even when a tolerance of 4 km/h is deducted from the measurement, the driver still falls under the country's strictest penalty in the traffic law.
If he had been just one km/h slower, the police in Austria would have been able to do nothing but give the young man a warning. But because Austria, following the Danish example, in March this year introduced a law on crazy cars, the state has now confiscated the car.
This is written by Bild .
The Austrian law allows the police to initially seize the car and store it behind bars before the case has gone to court. The law comes into force as soon as the speed is exceeded by more than 80 km/h in urban zones. In Denmark, the tolerance is 'only' 50 km/h on tight stretches.
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The court in Vienna decided the case against the 20-year-old last. And the young man must now wave goodbye to the car, for which he had borrowed 223,000 kroner.
The young driver must settle the large amount of money with his father. He must also pay a fine of DKK 12,000. Just as he must cough up to DKK 4,850, because part of the conditions of the sentence are more choir lessons with a choir teacher.
The young man must also pay the police DKK 82 every single day for storing the car. He has to until the car is sold.
The 20-year-old is far from the only crazy driver in Austria. Since the law came into force, 133 choir uniforms have been confiscated. Most recently, a Peugeot 208 from 2018 was sold for DKK 50,000 at an auction.
A state road safety fund received 70 percent of the amount, while the state took the rest. In another case, a Volkswagen Passat owner had to drop both a license and a driving license when he was measured for driving 198 km/h in a 100-zone. Already on the first day of the law, however, one motorist fell right into the trap. Read more about it here.
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