As of: March 6, 2024, 4:30 p.m
By: Simon Mones
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Austria is drastically increasing the penalties for speeders.
If you exceed the speed limit, the vehicle may be confiscated.
The first case was not long in coming.
It's easy to drive a few km/h too fast.
It only takes a moment of inattention for you to miss a traffic sign.
But some drivers deliberately rush across the streets and risk human lives.
In Denmark, the “crazy ride” law allows speeding cars to be confiscated and auctioned in such cases.
This has also been the case in Austria since March 1st.
Anyone driving 60 km/h too fast in urban areas or 70 km/h outside of urban areas can now have their car confiscated.
“If the speed exceeds more than 80 km/h in the local area or more than 90 km/h outside, a single violation is enough for the forfeiture,” says a statement from the Austrian Parliament.
If the vehicle is declared derelict by the authorities, the owner will no longer be able to get it back.
It will finally be taken away from him and used.
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114 km/h in town: Austrian police take away the car from a 28-year-old
And it didn't take long until the new law came into force in our neighboring country.
Just three days to be exact!
A 28-year-old was speeding at 114 km/h in Vienna on March 3rd.
If you are significantly too fast in Austria, you also have to hand in your car.
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“Since the speed limit in the local area was more than 60 km/h, the car was temporarily confiscated,” the police said.
He is also said to have “severely endangered road safety by driving close to other cars and abruptly changing lanes.”
The driver's license was also temporarily confiscated.
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Police confiscate the first cars: Further cases in Tyrol and Carinthia
However, the 28-year-old should not remain the only Austrian whose vehicle was confiscated just a few days after the new law came into force.
As the
Austria Press Agency (APA)
reports, there were also further cases in Tyrol and Carinthia.
At the APA
's request,
the Austrian Ministry of the Interior said that there were no definitive figures yet.
First, the nationwide data would have to be merged and checked for entry errors.
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It is expected that an initial, preliminary evaluation of the vehicles temporarily confiscated by the police will not be possible before mid-March.
The decision then rests with the responsible authority, which in some cases may judge differently than the officers who intervene on site.
The Transport and Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) was certainly satisfied on