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Truck on fire: the police take action against onlookers – criminal charges for particularly brazen drivers

2022-07-06T10:12:39.773Z


Truck on fire: the police take action against onlookers – criminal charges for particularly brazen drivers Created: 07/06/2022Updated: 07/06/2022 12:02 p.m By: Felix Herz An accident on the freeway – followed with great curiosity and photographed by onlookers (symbol image). © 7aktuell / IMAGO It has become a typical image: an accident on the freeway and numerous people unabashedly filming it.


Truck on fire: the police take action against onlookers – criminal charges for particularly brazen drivers

Created: 07/06/2022Updated: 07/06/2022 12:02 p.m

By: Felix Herz

An accident on the freeway – followed with great curiosity and photographed by onlookers (symbol image).

© 7aktuell / IMAGO

It has become a typical image: an accident on the freeway and numerous people unabashedly filming it.

The police are now resolutely against it.

Nuremberg – Again and again it happens that while dramatic accident scenes are taking place, rescue workers are even fighting for the lives of victims, onlookers are grabbing their mobile phones and filming on the other hand.

That is why there were repeated calls for the police to take more consistent action against the onlookers.

This is now happening in a case near Nuremberg.

Gaffers film truck fire: Police file twelve reports

On June 20, a truck caught fire on the A9 near Nuremberg.

The articulated lorry of a 23-year-old driver burned out completely at the height of the Nuremberg/Feucht motorway triangle.

The extinguishing and rescue work lasted until late at night.

Numerous onlookers filmed the scenes with their cell phone cameras while driving past the scene of the accident on the lane and the oncoming lane.

They hindered the rescue efforts and caused traffic jams.

Now the police reacted: Within an hour, the officials registered twelve offenses.

Two onlookers attracted particularly negative attention: the driver of a van was observed filming the scene of the accident – ​​and holding his mobile phone with both hands instead of at least one on the steering wheel.

And one car driver was even so brazen that he stopped in the acceleration lane of the oncoming lane, got out, filmed and photographed the scene and then drove on.

And that, although at that time not even rescue workers were on site.

The police expressed their frustration on Facebook.

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Brazen onlookers: ads against twelve gazers – police with frustrated post on Facebook

A criminal complaint is therefore also being filed against the car driver: Because of "violation of the highly personal area of ​​life and personal rights through image recordings and failure to provide assistance," the police write on Facebook.

The other eleven drivers “expected an administrative offense report of at least 200 euros”.

In addition, there is a risk of a point in the driving aptitude register, the post says.

In the case of accidents and other rescue operations, having nothing better to do than filming or photographing them is highly reprehensible in several ways.

Not only do onlookers most often hinder the work of first responders and rescue workers by causing traffic jams or blocking pathways, they also invade other people's highly private living spaces.

Recently, partially naked gazers prevented a revival at a bathing lake.

(fhz)

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Source: merkur

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