The fact that he was flashed by a speed trap was so terrifying to a 20-year-old that he used bizarre methods to destroy evidence.
- A 20-year-old was flashed on a federal road in Baden-Württemberg in mid-January.
- To destroy evidence, he tampered with the speed trap.
- With his action, however, he only made things worse.
It is natural that you get annoyed about having been flashed - but usually you accept it, wait patiently for the fine and slow down in the future. However, a 20-year-old who was flashed on a federal road in Baden-Württemberg in mid-January completely lost his nerve and was carried away by a headless campaign.
20-year-old is flashed - with hair-raising action he makes everything worse
The fiasco began, according to the Ludwigsburg police, in that the young driver was flashed in the evening at Vaihingen near Stuttgart on the main road. After driving on, he returned to the speed trap after ten minutes and parked his car on the opposite side of the road. The stupid thing: To reach the mobile speed device, the 20-year-old had to cross four lanes .
But he did not let that stop him and captured parts of the speed trap , which he packed in his car. As the police report, he then made off with " squeaky tires " and briefly got into a skid. An oncoming car had to avoid him when he came into the oncoming lane. He could still avoid an accident, but he will hardly have destroyed the speed camera photos with his risky action.
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The brazen thief took only the flashing lights and left the camera and data carrier undisturbed . In addition, the incident seemed to have continued to gnaw at the 20-year-old, because later he stood at the police station and admitted to having sunk the flashing lights in an excavated lake.
According to the officials, the driver caused more than 15,000 euros in his action and received a criminal complaint about the risk of road traffic and theft . In addition, it is checked whether the 20-year-old endangered other people.
And all because of a marginal overspeed: The 20-year-old only exceeded the permissible top speed "in the single-digit range".
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