Drunk on the e-scooter: Geretsrieder has to pay a fine

Created: 01/29/2022, 14:54

Alcohol abuse is the most common misconduct among e-scooter drivers - a Geretsrieder has now been convicted.

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A Geretsrieder has to pay a fine of 1500 euros.

He was on an e-scooter after drinking alcohol.

Geretsried/Wolfratshausen – An e-scooter is not a toy or piece of sports equipment.

Even if some users might see it as such.

The speedy speedsters are considered micro vehicles, which means that the same blood alcohol limits apply to them as to cars or motorcycles.

This knowledge now costs a Geretsrieder (42) 1500 euros.

That's how high the fine he has to pay because he was caught with 1.4 per thousand on his electric scooter.

Geretsried: 42-year-old is drunk on the road - and has to answer in court

"You develop a feeling for it," a police officer explained why he had subjected the man who was driving his e-scooter on Adalbert-Stifter-Straße at around 11:45 p.m. on September 6, 2021 to a traffic check.

An expired black license plate had piqued his curiosity.

A look into the glassy eyes of the scooter driver was enough to do a breath alcohol test.

This resulted in a value of 0.69 milligrams per liter, which corresponds to around 1.4 per mille - and according to case law means absolute unfitness to drive.

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The defendant didn't even try to talk his way out of it.

At a barbecue with friends, he drank a few beers and slivovitz - "and didn't think that it could be too much," summarized his lawyer Marc Zinka.

"One traffic light before home" ended the journey.

Drunk on the e-scooter: Geretsrieder has to pay a fine – "is a crime"

Since the facts of the case could not be shaken, the defense attorney limited the objection to the penalty order that the man from Geretsried had received to the legal consequences.

"Annoying is the isolated driving ban, which also means he can't use his scooter," explained Zinka.

On this point, the court agreed with the defendant.

Judge Helmut Berger reduced the driving ban from three to one month.

The accused has to do without his driver's license, which was taken from him on October 31, for another four months.

In addition, Berger sentenced the 42-year-old to a fine of 30 daily rates of 50 euros each.

"While you have mainly endangered yourself," the judge said, "it's still a criminal offense."