Driving license withdrawal, nine months driving license lock and 2600 euro fine - this condemned a Hamburg court now a Raser. But that's not all. For the first time, the court also decided to expropriate the traffic offender, so take away his motorcycle so replacement.
The motorcyclist started his tour at the end of last year on the A7 motorway near Hamburg and drove up to 60 km / h faster than allowed, overtook on the right and drove solid lines, as the Hamburger Morgenpost reported. Later, the driver was traveling at 226 instead of 100 km / h and drove through a village at 129 kilometers per hour. Before the police finished the ride, he ignored a red traffic light.
New paragraph against Raser
By the end of 2017, the Raser would have been convicted only for violation of the Highway Code. But now the court refers to the new paragraph 315d in the Criminal Code against illegal road races: "Who in the traffic as a motor vehicle driver with improper speed and grossly wrongly and ruthlessly moving to achieve the highest possible speed, is imprisonment up to two years or punished with a fine "states. Paragraph 315f also states that motor vehicles can be recovered. Drivers are also potentially affected.
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"The confiscation of the vehicle as an object of fact is a discretionary decision of the court," says Kai Wantzen of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court. Especially in the case was that the retracted motorcycle technical changes were made, which were not allowed. "If the journey had been completed with an inconspicuous family carriage, the use of which the driver's family urgently needs, the court would probably have decided differently in terms of proportionality," says Wantzen.
The accused initially appealed against the punitive order, but withdrew it, so that the decision is now final. The 160 hp and about 15,000 euros expensive motorcycle is auctioned.