In court, the BMW owner tried to get around the fine of DKK 865,000 by claiming that the recording of him was inaccurate.
A BMW owner has been fined 865,000 kroner for a particularly dangerous traffic jam.
The penalty has been given at a court in Switzerland, where a judge has come to the conclusion that the BMW owner cut too close to anchoring. Also known as press carousel.
According to the police, there is video material of the man when he drove his BMW 540d on a motorway near Switzerland's largest city Zurich in March 2023. The footage, which was also shown during the trial, shows the BMW traveling at least 119 km/h.
BlueWin writes it.
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All this with a distance to the anchor of no more than 12.1 metres. However, the police recordings show that the distance was down to 7.9 metres. In court, the BMW owner tried to explain that the police video recording was imprecise and therefore cannot be used as evidence.
But the judge did not buy that explanation. And because traffic stops in Switzerland are dependent on income, the BMW owner must now pay almost one million kroner in stops.
In its ruling, the court arrived at the size of the penalty because the BMW owner's taxable income was calculated at 1.6 million Swiss francs. That's just under 13 million Danish kroner.
Too close traffic is dangerous. Unfortunately, it is also everyday life for many Danes. Both for those who are exposed to it and for those who do it. In other words, choirs too close.
Back in 2022, a woman was denied a driver's license because, according to the Danish police's calculations, she was 0.01 seconds too close to the driver in front. Read more about that case here.
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