Police officers? Firefighters? First responder? A 60-year-old alcoholic driver from Burgenland claimed champagne bottles and cash were stolen from the car involved in the accident. In an email to state police headquarters, the woman suspected the officers who rushed to the accident – earning her a defamation charge.
The question mark is not enough: was it a car’s fault that the woman from Northern Burgenland had to swerve near the Leithaberg and ended up in a ditch? Was it a deer? A blowout? Three versions, three of their truths.
On that warm summer day in July 2023, the 60-year-old drank “three-eighths of wine between 5 and 9 p.m.” Around midnight, after a three-hour break and the accident, the woman was overcome with thirst. The trapped woman caused ‘two and three quarters of the bellboys’ to fall over in the car within half an hour. With this 0.55 liter sparkling wine, even small children do not come close to the measured 1.8 permille. Does not matter.
Calls for help were rejected several times
The defendant said during the trial in Eisenstadt, where she has to answer for defamation, that she had to kill time to avoid dehydration with champagne, because there was a dead zone. First responders called the fire department, who freed the woman from the vehicle. A little later the police arrived. “She did not appear visibly injured,” an officer said. “I checked her personal information and gave her her driver’s license back.” A colleague in turn noticed that she was under the influence of alcohol, which was subsequently confirmed. Police say they asked three times whether they should call an ambulance. “No! It’s all okay!”
“Brutal, unfriendly and spicy”
When she got home, the woman felt a lot of pain. And noticed bleeding wounds. She wrote an email to the Vienna State Police at 3 a.m.: “It is very worrying that two bottles of champagne, 450 euros and my driver’s license are no longer there.” And further: “They were unfriendly, rude and snarky. That’s not how you treat people.”
Because the judge is “not a doctor” and would like to have the expert report explained, the case was postponed. The problem is that no help was provided – and Kittsee police also took the woman home.
Source: Krone
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