At the Court in Glostrup, a 43-year-old man has lost both his car and his driving license because he could not see out of the windscreen and therefore hit an officer.
A 43-year-old driver had considerable problems with his vision when he drove around Hedehusene on an otherwise frosty morning in 2023.
According to the police, the man had chosen to scratch only two small peepholes in the windscreen, which he used to orientate himself in traffic. And the court believes that explanation.
This is what Copenhagen's Vestegns Police write in a press release .
Although the man could see almost nothing, he looked around a densely built-up area on Kallerupvej, which is near a school and kindergarten.
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A traffic officer noticed the iced-up car and pulled in front of it, while the driver was tried to be made aware that he should stop his traffic.
However, it helped very little, so the officer chose to get out of the patrol car to signal to the man.
Again, the small peepholes became problematic when the motorist did not spot the officer and at low speed drove directly into him, so that the officer fell over the helmet. It cost the 43-year-old man an indictment on the spot for putting road safety aside and creating a danger to others. So crazy carousel.
The court in Glostrup gave the 43-year-old driver a 30-day suspended sentence on Monday this week. Just as the choir card has been revoked for three years and the car confiscated. This even though the police officer was not injured.
– Crossroads with reduced visibility are in themselves dangerous for other road users.
– But since in this case it takes place in an area with juvenile institutions and a person is ticketed, the prosecutor's office believes that this is a case of crazy driving, says special prosecutor Charlotte Mogelhoj from the prosecutor's office at Copenhagen's Vestegns Police.
The penalty for driving with impaired vision is basically a fine of DKK 2,500 and a conditional suspension of the driving license for three years. The 43-year-old driver now has two weeks to decide whether he wants to appeal the sentence.
The public prosecutor's office at Copenhagen's Vestegns Police has almost 20 other cases about traffic jams with iced windows from last winter on their way to court.
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