Driving with a blood alcohol level above 2 and over 200 km/h on the highways in Norway must end, as the government will introduce rules against reckless driving.
First Denmark, then Austria and now Norway want to introduce rules against reckless driving. This will make it possible to confiscate Norwegians' cars.
This is reported by the news agency NBT.
– We cannot accept that someone makes our roads unsafe with very high speeds, speeding and other life-threatening behavior, says Transport Minister Jon-Ivar Nygård (Labor Party) in a
press release .
This is the result of a working group set up by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Ministry of Justice, which is now putting the proposal on the table in the Riksdag.
Specifically, the Norwegian government proposes that the state in Norway should be able to take both driving licenses and cars from drivers with a blood alcohol level above 2.0 or who drive faster than 200 km/h.
Norway cracks down on crazy rides following Danish example
Minister of Justice and Security Astri Aas-Hansen (Labor Party), who is behind the proposal, says that reckless driving is a growing problem in Norway, and that this type of behavior in traffic is life-threatening for everyone.
The working group has also looked at proposals to tighten the rules for the use of handheld mobile phones. Here, the government proposes raising the fine, which is currently 10,000 Norwegian kroner, and banning traffic alarms.
– For those who do this kind of thing (driving at, for example, more than 200 km/h, ed.), we see that it is not enough to take away the driver's license, impose large fines and prison sentences.
– That is why we are now submitting the proposal that the police should be able to confiscate cars in court, says Astri Aas-Hansen.
Here in Denmark, the law on reckless driving has existed since March 2021. On that account, the country's police districts have already seized more than 3,000 cars, while many of them have ultimately already been confiscated and sold at auction.
One of the first reckless drivers who had to hand over both his driving license and car keys to the police in Denmark was a then 61-year-old man who had just picked up a leased Ferrari 488 Spider from the Danish Ferrari in April 2021.
The police took the car on the Frederikssund Motorway near Smorum because the police believed they could document that the 61-year-old was driving at least 211 km/h.
Something that the High Court ruled in favor of the police more than 3 years later. The car, which had been completely idle since then, ended up being sold for 1.7 million kroner. Read more about the case here .
