Bettina Wulff has to give up her driver's license for eleven months because she drove a drunk car. In addition, the wife of former Federal President Christian Wulff accepted, according to the prosecutor Hanover a fine.

"I can confirm that a sentence of 40 daily sentences was issued," said a spokesman. This was immediately accepted and thus legally valid. Drunkenness in traffic is a driving ban of eleven months usual. First the newspaper "Neue Presse" reported

After the investigation became known in late September, Bettina Wulff's lawyer, Christian Schertz, said his client acknowledged that she had made a mistake that she would be responsible for. The 45-year-old remained, according to the prosecutor's office while touching a tree near her home Burgwedel near Hannover unhurt. Other road users were not involved in the accident.

At the end of October Bettina and Christian Wulff had announced their new separation. They are married since 2008, in 2013 they separated for the first time. At the beginning of May 2015, the politician and the PR consultant confirmed that they were once again a couple.