Traffic offenders were asked to pay properly on Friday night during a focus action by the Upper Austrian state traffic department and the Perg district police command. In addition to the speed driven, the police primarily checked technical vehicle conversions. The license plates were removed from three cars on the spot. The police reported illegal tuning measures against 38 other car owners whose vehicles were immediately checked by experts at the Perg road maintenance department.
There were also numerous penalties for speed drivers. 269 drivers were reported for exceeding the permitted driving speed. A vehicle was measured at 185 km/h outdoors on federal highway 3. Significant speed violations were also found for two other drivers: One sped through the town of Perg at 100 km/h, another was only slightly slower at 97 km/h. A driver was found to have been affected by narcotics. He also had to give up his driver’s license. In total, the Perg district authority issued penalties totaling 6,230 euros that night.
On Saturday, Traffic Councilor Günther Steinkellner from the FPÖ thanked the officials involved in the campaign: “These targeted and effective priority actions by the police together with the state’s experts are important in order to strengthen safety on our roads. They are a thorn in the side of all those who have made dangerous and irregular installations on the vehicle or who believe they have to misuse our roads as illegal racetracks.”
Source: Nachrichten
