The lightning marathon had been announced, and drivers had been warned.
Nevertheless, the police in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district caught almost two dozen speeding offenders on the move.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - the police had set up 159 measuring points for the Bavaria-wide 24-hour lightning marathon in the southern part of Upper Bavaria, 14 of them in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district.
Among other things, in Bad Tölz and on the B11 at the level of the scout home in Geretsried (we reported).
A total of around 27,000 vehicles were targeted by law enforcement officers in the area of responsibility of the Upper Bavaria South Police Headquarters.
594 of them were caught on the move as speeding offenders, reports the press spokeswoman for the Rosenheim Police Headquarters, Carolin Englert.
For comparison: At the Blitzmarathon 2019, 945 out of around 24,000 drivers checked in the Upper Bavaria South area were too fast.
Mercedes traveling at 81 km / h on a 50 km / h route
Several hundred vehicles - the exact number is not known - passed the measuring points in a circle between 6 a.m. on Wednesday and 6 a.m. on Thursday.
Despite warning - Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann had announced the lightning marathon via the media - 23 drivers were too fast.
The inglorious top spot goes to a Mercedes driver who was on the B472 in Bad Heilbrunn shortly before 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
A maximum of 50 km / h is allowed there, the police's laser device indicated 81 km / h, reports Englert.
In addition, another 19 car or truck drivers had to be stopped by the police.
Some of them were unbuckled, others had their cell phones on their ears.
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"We do not want the driver's wallet," emphasized the police spokeswoman.
“We want to permanently ensure that the foot is taken off the accelerator pedal.” 28 people, that is more than a third of the road fatalities, lost their lives in road traffic in the Upper Bavaria South area in 2020 because they were driving too fast.
Englert: "Every single one is one too many." (Cce)
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