A 17-year-old girl may in principle have managed to down a fake vodka after she was stopped by the police. Therefore, she cannot be convicted of drunk driving.
A 17-year-old Swedish girl from Växjö has been acquitted of drunk driving in an A-tractor.
All because the police cannot prove that, in principle, she could not have anything to bottom a bottle of vodka before the officer who stopped her reached the a-tractor.
This is written by Smålandsposten .
In the High Court, there were different interpretations of what the young driver had been guilty of. But two of the three judges did not think that the police could prove drunk driving.
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Because in principle she could have managed to get drunk before the plainclothes officer she was stopped by reached her.
Or as the High Court sees it: "that in practice it cannot be ruled out that the girl drank alcohol after she shorted the car".
In the District Court, the girl then also defended herself by saying that 'she drank large amounts of alcohol in the time it took the plainclothes officer to reach her car.'
And that may well be true. Initially, a breathalyzer showed that the young driver had drunk too much. A blood test later determined that the blood alcohol level was up to 1.7.
Actually, the police wanted to talk to the girl because she had been seen by others backing the tractor into a house wall. Much apropos of a-tractors, the Swedes are strongly dissatisfied with a new EU ban.Read more about it here .
It is certainly not the first time that very young drivers have been stopped behind the wheel. That is, on the wrong side of the traffic law.
In this country, according to the police, a man of only 18 years said, 'fucking is nothing better than making a burner' when he was stopped. However, the young man denies that he should have said it himself. Read more about it here .
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