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Dozens of motorists from Thuringia and Bavaria have arranged to drift in a snow-covered parking lot near Oberhof.
On Friday evening, police noticed about 150 cars being made to skid on the snow-covered ground there.
As the police further announced on Sunday, the drivers had arranged to drift on social media.
The emergency services on site tried to stop the driving maneuvers and punished some administrative offenses, said a police spokesman for the dpa news agency.
Further apparently planned drift actions could have been prevented by offensive intervention by the police.
19-year-old fell into the ditch
In the evening and at night on weekends, a high number of "young and supposedly young-at-heart road users" was repeatedly found in parking lots in and around Oberhof, according to the Suhl police.
According to the police, a 19-year-old slipped his car into the ditch in connection with the drifting, he was reportedly uninjured.
The police appealed to drivers to refrain from such driving maneuvers.
These are dangerous.
In addition to sometimes severe fines in the event of damage, there is also a risk of fines or imprisonment as well as the withdrawal of the driver's license.
In Thuringia there had been repeated, sometimes fatal incidents with drifting cars in recent winters.
At the beginning of 2021, a four-year-old girl died in a field near Gera when a driver lost control of his vehicle while skidding.
The car crashed into the sled on which the child was sitting.
The girl was trapped between the car and a parked bus and died from her injuries.
swe/dpa
