Both the SF and the Unity Party will look into whether the 'rules for field races' are sufficient in Denmark. As it stands today, it is not illegal.
Field racing is one of the few things involving cars that is not fully regulated in Denmark. And both the SF and the Unity List have had enough of it.
After an accident that cost the life of a 14-year-old boy last September, the parties will now look into whether the field race can be banned.
– I think it is absolutely horrible that you can sit behind the wheel without having a driving license, says member of parliament Theresa Berg Andersen from SF to TV Midtvest .
But according to both the police and the Danish Road Safety Authority, there is nothing to be done. The race takes place where the postman, as the saying goes, cannot come. Therefore, there are no rules.
Neither does it require that the cars be in legal condition or equipped with license plates. The Danish Road Traffic Authority explains this in an email to the media.
This is not the first time that field races have cost the lives of even very young people. But the police can neither interfere nor want to interfere.
– We can't interfere in it. It happened on private property, it said in connection with a fatal accident in 2021 in a comment to Folkebladet Lemvig.
The Danish Council for Safe Traffic is not particularly keen to address field races either. But SF would like to do so.
The party's deputy chairman Theresa Berg Andersen told TV Midtvest that it is something that needs to be looked into in the parliamentary group.
