In Spreitbach AG, two drunk car occupants refused to testify regarding the driver responsible following an accident and were arrested. The car reported the accident itself. It sent the relevant data, which reached the police via the manufacturer.
The two men, aged 42 and 43, got off a side street in their car around 3.30 a.m. on Friday night and crashed into a tree, according to the Aargau canton police. The collision and the coordinates of the scene of the accident were reported to the police by the alarm center of the German car manufacturer BMW. Previously, the car had automatically transmitted the relevant data following the accident.
BMW was seized
Police officers went out and discovered the occupants from the region next to the accident car. They were unharmed, but “clearly drunk,” as the police wrote. They had behaved “uncooperatively” and refused to say who was driving the car.
Police arrested the men for further investigation. She also secured the car. The public prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation. (SDA)
