The “Schulstraße” traffic sign for a primary school in Neunkirchen causes confusion among some drivers. Not everyone is aware that it is a driving ban. A handlebar now had to pay 50 euros penalty. He is mainly irritated by the police procedure.
For decades, Markus P. from Ternitz has gone through Mühlfeldstrasse in Neunkirchen at least once a week to visit his older mother. So also on March 12 at 12:34 PM This time the police stood by the road and wrote down autosummers.
“I still thought the officer noticed the cars that parked there,” said P. he drove through the street in a hiking well and thought nothing. “The police officer still looked at me in the car and smiled at me in a friendly way,” said the steering wheel.
Two days later awakening malignant. A criminal order fluttered into the house. 50 euros for driving on a “school road” in the forbidden time must be paid.
“Didn’t know you couldn’t drive here”
P. admits that he had never noticed the board before. And even afterwards he says: “It is not clear to me that this is a general ban on driving.”
However, he is particularly irritated by the police officer’s procedure. “He could have stopped me immediately to collect the punishment or maybe just heard.
Precarious traffic situation for school led to this
From the town hall of Neunkirchen it says: “De Schulstraße for the Mühfeld Folk School has been in force since April 2023 and work very well, parents and school are enthusiastic.”
This solution was agreed because the traffic situation for the school was particularly precarious at the moment for the class and at the end.
The relatively new traffic sign has been legally anchored in the traffic regulations in Austria since October 2022. Authorities can explain traffic positions near schools with their own traffic signs to “school streets”. Only exceptions such as residents, school staff, waste removal or rescue are permitted.
Why not punish the police immediately? “There is no general procedure. The police officer is responsible for whether he warns, lifts or notes a punishment,” says the town hall.
Source: Krone
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