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Giessen: 18-year-olds celebrate birthday with illegal car race in PS bolides
Giessen police stop two illegal car races in one day. The cars: highly motorized. The drivers: young. Their behavior: dangerous.
Giessen – two illegal races with high-powered cars took place in Giessen over the weekend. This was announced by the police on Monday (02.08.2021) with. The police have started an investigation. The first case was reported by a civil patrol, which in the night from saturday to sunday (01.08.2021) was on the road in the university city. At around two o’clock, two real "bolides" caught the eye of the officers in the Nordanlage: a mercedes-AMG G63 (585 hp, from approx. 160.000 euros) and a porsche panamera 4 E-hybrid (372 hp, from approx. 110.000 euros). On the rodheimer road the speedsters are to have overtaken each other "strongly accelerating.
Giessen police arrest novice drivers after illegal car race
They then continued onto heuchelheimer strabe, where the drivers had lined up the mercedes and the porsche next to each other at a red light in the industrial area, and then had a so-called acceleration race towards heuchelheim when the light turned green. The journey ended shortly afterwards, however, when the Giessen police stopped the cars. According to the information, twin brothers were at the steering wheels, who had endangered not only themselves but also their passengers.
The two speeders had just turned 18 a few hours earlier and were thus exempt from "accompanied driving", as the Giessen police reported. The youngsters are said to have celebrated this together with friends in their father’s cars. They are now accused of illegal motor vehicle racing, which is punishable by a prison sentence of up to two years or a fine. the driver’s license he had just obtained is also in danger of being quickly taken away again.
Giessen: at car races with over 100 km/h in the city on the way
The second illegal car race happened on sunday evening in front of the eyes of another civil patrol from gieben. At the traffic lights at grunberger und moltke strabe, a VW golf GTI (250 hp, from approx. 35.000 euro) and a VW T-ROC R (300 hp, from approx. 43.000 euros) in the sights of investigators. The latter had let its engine rev several times at the red light, so that "loud banging noises of the exhaust system could be heard", the police report said. The vehicles then drove at normal speed into ludwigstrasse, where they both "accelerated sharply" until they had to slow down again at the traffic lights for bismarckstrasse.
The T-ROC had "illegally and in unclear traffic conditions" hit the GTI there üthe car overtook him, whereupon the latter also accelerated before both of them turned off at the yellow light in the direction of schiffenberger tal. There, the drivers would have "really stepped on it" given that the civil patrol had problems to catch up despite 100 km/h on their own speedometer. At the railroad crossing, the cars finally slowed down and drove onto heegstrauchweg, where the police stopped them in the parking lot of a restaurant. The drivers were 21 and 22 years old. They too are now awaiting criminal proceedings. It was only at the beginning of July that the Giessen police last caught a speeding driver after he had engaged in a wild chase with the officers.