2024-03-17 05:17:53
Since the beginning of the month, vehicles can be confiscated for flagrant speeding. During the “Roadrunner” operation, 16 officers were deployed on the Währinger Belt once morest speeders from Saturday morning to Sunday evening, Major General Thomas Losko, head of the Vienna State Transport Department, told journalists. No cars were accepted this time.
This means that the speeder, who is said to have been traveling at up to 114 km/h on the Hernalser Belt on Monday night, remains the only road user who had to give up his car in Vienna because of excessive speed. A little further north, at the level of the General Hospital (AKH), laser measurements were also carried out on Saturday evening. Before that, the oncoming lane on the outer belt was checked with a “traffic funnel” and grid square. The focus was primarily on “highly powered vehicles,” said Losko.
“We regularly – almost daily – carry out special campaigns in the transport sector of various sizes,” says Losko. Tightening the density of controls, which has already reached a very high level in Vienna, is currently not necessary due to the new legislation.
With the 34th amendment to the Road Traffic Act (StVO), the cars of extreme speeders can be confiscated on the spot and subsequently auctioned since the beginning of the month. The package of measures launched by the Ministry of Transport and Climate Protection is aimed at serious offenses and speeding of more than 60 km/h in town and 70 km/h outside the town area.
Although the tightening of the law had a strong media presence, it had not yet fully reached the relevant community. “It will take some time, but if there are several incidents that get around, the general preventive effect should take effect,” Losko suspected.
Last year, the traffic police across Austria reported or punished more than six million speeding violations – a new record, as the Interior Ministry announced on Thursday. “In Vienna we have been checking more in recent years, and there has also been an increase in the number of advertisements,” said Losko. But in order to make valid statements, you have to wait another one or two years, also because of fluctuations during the Corona period.
Losko sees no direct connection with the “tuning” scene when it comes to speeding: There are so-called posers in this area in Vienna who customize their cars very much and usually don’t race on the road. “There are relatively few people here who duel illegally at top speeds – we have the situation well under control through our control measures,” emphasized Losko.
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