Balance for Tyrol – The police have already seized vehicles from 34 speed offenders

Again! Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, police officers carrying out speed measurements on the Inntal highway near Zirl were astonished. They caught a so-called Verstappen doing 204 km/h – almost 100 km/h too fast!

Final station Pettnau
The trip ended a little later in Pettnau. The officers not only temporarily took away the drunk (!) speeder’s driver’s license, but also confiscated the car. As a reminder, since March 2024, the executive branch can take this drastic measure if someone travels too fast 70 km/h outside the city or 60 km/h in the city.

“We have since temporarily seized a total of 34 vehicles,” said Enrico Leitgeb, head of the traffic department of the Tyrolean police. In 22 cases, cars were involved, motorcycle drivers were caught eleven times and once even a small truck was driving dramatically too fast.

All speeders are men
Men dominate the statistics in a most inglorious way. “With one exception, all speeders are men,” Leitgeb continued. About two-thirds of the cases involved local residents. The absolute winner so far is the speedster that ‘speeded’ along a federal highway at an incredible 183 km/h instead of the permitted 70.

“Magnet” with 60 zones for speed offenders
According to Leitgeb, many of the drastic speeding violations that lead to seizures occur in 60 speed zones. And interestingly, most of the ‘extreme speeders’ were stopped during the day – 21. ‘And not primarily during the off-peak hours of the day, as you might think,’ Leitgeb wonders.

Speedsters stand out more
However, it cannot be concluded that there are currently more speed offenders on the road than before. The statistical upgrade would likely only make the speedsters stand out even more.