Traffic signs simply set up: bad consequences - danger for drivers
Created: 06/22/2022, 07:54
By: Anna Maureen Bremer
Many want Tempo 30. However, some are now resorting to illegal means.
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Organizations are calling for the erection of false traffic signs.
However, the action can have far-reaching consequences.
In many places, residents want a speed limit of 30, and in some places there are street signs that say "Here, 30 voluntary".
These are often agreed with the regulatory office and do not pose a problem.
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reports on a very problematic procedure: The Automobile Club of Germany (AvD) is currently warning of traffic signs that are set up illegally and are not recognizable as such for drivers.
As if road traffic wasn't often chaotic enough - for example due to confusing traffic signs - there are now completely new illegal activities.
On its website, the AvD writes: “Environmental associations are calling on people to put up 30 km/h signs in town on their own initiative.
In doing so, bona fide private individuals are being harnessed for the intentions of this organization and are being asked to commit justiciable actions, although they cannot assess the consequences of their actions at all.”
Set up traffic signs yourself?
This can end badly
In plain language this means: It is illegal to simply set up traffic signs.
Or as it is at
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“Traffic signs must not be put up just like that.
Traffic signs and traffic facilities have the task of enforcing the generally applicable traffic rules
useful to add."
The AvD expressly points out that road users can be endangered if random street signs are attached.
Signs are intended to make traffic safer, and anyone who puts them up on their own takes the risk of preventing precisely that.
Legally, the perpetrator of dangerous intervention in road traffic can be prosecuted.
In Stuttgart, such actions are likely to be largely obsolete.
The state capital joined the Tempo 30 city initiative in February.
Warning signs must not simply be set up - AvD criticizes
Incidentally, it is also forbidden to cover or tape over an official traffic sign.
"Anyone who changes a valid signage impairs an "accident prevention measure" (§ 145 Paragraph 2 No. 1 StGB) or commits an "official presumption" by such action (§ 132 StGB)."
AvD General Secretary Lutz Leif Linden: "Although all relevant traffic regulations prohibit the erection of signs by one's own authority, dubious associations openly call for violations of lawfully issued regulations to improve traffic safety.
The request to set up signs that are different in shape and color on private property is hypocritical.
In the fight against the car, these ideologues use every means possible.”