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A 59-year-old hadn't had a driver's license for a long time - now he was caught in a police check.
Macabre: The man showed the driver's license of a dead man.
A driver's license costs a lot of money - especially if you have to repeat the tests, like so many applicants did last year.
The “rag” is again significantly more expensive than here, for example in Sweden and Switzerland.
For some, however, the money is not the problem at all, but their driving style or other offenses such as excessive alcohol consumption, which result in a driver's license being revoked.
There are even contemporaries who completely do without the "rag" - in Great Britain a man was actually driving for 72 years without a driver's license until he was caught by the police.
Now, in Lower Saxony, a driver who has not had a driver's license for a long time has been checked by the police.
He tried to deceive the police with a rather macabre ploy.
Macabre action: drivers want to deceive the police with a dead man's driver's license
As the officials report, the man was stopped by civilian investigators from the federal police on the A30 at the Schüttorf exit.
During the check, the 59-year-old driver presented the officers with an old gray paper driver's license (which, like so many older driver's licenses, has to be exchanged within a certain period of time).
However, this was not his own, but belonged to a man who died in 2019.
The 59-year-old driver's license had already been revoked in 2015.
Bad #Bentheim 📍
On the road with a driver's license of a deceased since 2019.
Our colleagues made this bizarre discovery on Tuesday at the German-Dutch border.
💻 Press release: https://t.co/hW9kCVgM1j#Bundespolizei pic.twitter.com/KCP4S3noWm
— Federal Police North (@bpol_nord) March 22, 2023
Drivers want to deceive the police with a dead driver's license – fraud is exposed
The youth photo in the driver's license bore little resemblance to the driver - but the 59-year-old had apparently bet that the police would not notice this with such an old "rag".
But the officials found out about the fraud.
The driver's license was secured and criminal proceedings were initiated against the 59-year-old for misusing identity documents and driving without a license.
Catalog of fines: what fines traffic offenders have to reckon with
The new catalog of fines came into force on November 9, 2021.
If you drive 16 to 20 kilometers per hour too fast in town and are flashed, you now pay 70 euros instead of 35 as before.
© Sebastian Gollnow/dpa
If you drive 16 to 20 km/h too fast outside of built-up areas and are caught, you now pay 60 euros instead of the previous 30 euros. The same applies here: the faster, the more expensive.
In many cases - i.e. the levels of speeding - the fines are doubled.
© Uwe Anspach/dpa
The illegal use of sidewalks, cycle paths and hard shoulders by vehicles is also becoming more expensive.
Violations are punished with a fine of up to 100 euros instead of up to 25 euros.
(Iconic image) © Arne Dedert/dpa
Some violations would also be more expensive for cyclists, as the ADFC explained with a view to the new catalog of fines.
This applies when cyclists ride illegally on a sidewalk.
© Paul Zinken/dpa
General stopping and parking violations will be punished with a fine of up to 55 euros instead of the previous 15 euros.
(Archive image/symbolic image) General stopping and parking violations are punished with a warning fine of up to 55 euros instead of up to 15 euros as before.
(Archive image/symbolic image) © Swen Pförtner/dpa
Anyone who parks illegally in a disabled parking space must expect a fine of 55 euros instead of the previous 35 euros.
© Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa
Anyone who comes up with the idea of parking an officially marked fire brigade access road or obstructing an emergency vehicle must expect a fine of 100 euros.
Anyone who comes up with the idea of parking an officially marked fire brigade access road or obstructing an emergency vehicle must expect a fine of 100 euros.
(Archive image/symbolic image) © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa
Anyone who does not form an emergency lane must expect a fine of between 200 and 320 euros and a month's driving ban. Anyone who does not form an emergency lane or even uses it themselves to make faster progress by car must expect a fine of between 200 and 320 euros and a month's driving ban .
© Patrick Seeger/dpa
Police control action on drugs and alcoholTruck drivers who violate the newly introduced obligation to only drive the truck at walking speed when turning right in built-up areas will be asked to pay 70 euros.
(Archive image/symbolic image) © Julian Stratenschulte/dpa
The fine for causing unnecessary noise and avoidable exhaust nuisance as well as annoying useless driving back and forth will be raised from up to 20 euros to up to 100 euros. Attention car posers: The fine for causing unnecessary noise and avoidable exhaust nuisance as well as the annoying useless driving back and forth will be raised from up to 20 euros to up to 100 euros.
© Patrick Pleul/dpa
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Less macabre, but rather cheeky was the action that a 26-year-old delivered to police officers some time ago: He showed a fake driver's license from the "Bunte Republic of Germany", with a smiley pictogram applied - and instead of the yellow stars there is the internet address of a joke article site.
It placed an ad for forgery and driving without a license.
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