Four Brits got into trouble with the police and deliberately got themselves caught speeding. They were sure that they could avoid punishment. The background.
It couldn’t be more cheeky – or stupid! For days, four young Brits have been racing through northern Burgenland in cars with up to 400 hp, just to play a dirty game with the traffic control and fool the authorities. The hooligans deliberately raced past radar boxes at breakneck speed, deliberately allowing themselves to be “flashed” at far too high a speed. They were sure that as non-EU citizens they would easily avoid a fine.Series of speeding offencesThe dangerous speeders were seriously mistaken, however. They came under the police’s scrutiny as early as the beginning of July. And the British hooligans followed suit. Less than three weeks later, a whole series of blatant speeding offences was recorded in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district. The police had two BMW sports cars and two Audi models, each with British license plates, on their radar. “The BMW M3 in the group had exceeded the speed limit 13 times within two weeks. A measuring station on the Schützen am Gebirge bypass showed a maximum speed of 244 km/h, another on the A3 showed exactly 251 km/h,” according to the authorities’ records. The other three cars from the quartet of speeders were even “speeded” on the same stretches at 259 and 266 km/h.Two wanted hooligans stopped by policeThe 80 officers who were on duty at the grid square at the weekend had these speeders in particular in their sights. On the day of the “Operation Sharp”, the 18-year-old Brit’s BMW M3 sped along the Schützen bypass at around 1.30 p.m. at more than 230 km/h instead of the permitted 100 km/h.Driver confessesThe check at the stopping place on the B50 in Eisenstadt was the last stop. According to the police, the young driver confessed when he was shown the radar photos of his horror drives. The sports car, which belongs to the father, was confiscated and the 18-year-old’s driver’s license was revoked.Fine for 21-year-old He had to pay several thousand euros as a so-called security deposit. A police patrol tracked down one of the wanted Audi drivers (21) from England on the A3 and stopped him in Eisenstadt. He also had to fork out a lot of money.The other two speeders are wanted. The police wanted to arrest them at the campsite in Rust, but the British guests had fled abroad.
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