Car confiscated

30 km/h restriction was invalid for 128 km/h speeders

The construction workers had forgotten to remove the 30 km/h sign (symbolic image)(Bild: ANDREAS TROESTER)

Oops, forgot! - Because a traffic sign was not cleared away, a speeding driver was in more trouble than allowed. He was driving four times too fast in Neukirchen an der Vöckla when he drove through a 30 km/h zone. However, the sign did not apply to the 28-year-old, whose car was confiscated.

Unexpected twist in the case of the 28-year-old Timelkamer who had to hand in his car in Neukirchen an der Vöckla because he had been clocked at 128 km/h in a 30 km/h zone. The auction was off the table anyway, as the Mercedes E-Class AGM belongs to the North Macedonian's dad. But now the lead-footed driver will get away with little or no fine. As it turned out, he would have been allowed to drive at 100 km/h anyway.

The 30 km/h limit was wrongly set there and was not even valid. At least not at the time when the 28-year-old drove into the radar. This is because the "30" was approved and set up for a construction site on Gampener Straße, but only applies when construction work is taking place there or when there are workers there.

Police officers also misinformed
But by 6 p.m. it was already closing time and no one was on the construction site. The sign should have been removed by then - but was apparently forgotten. The police officers who were there to check the speed limit didn't know this either - and therefore cracked down.