Canton of Lucerne
Drinking too much: Police stop cyclists and drivers on Lucerne streets
The Lucerne police stopped and checked several drivers. There was alcohol involved.
A police officer carries out a breath alcohol test.
Image: Severin Bigler
More and more people are driving on Lucerne’s streets under the influence of alcohol or drugs. This is shown by the annual statistics from the Lucerne public prosecutor. And this trend seems to be continuing these days: At the weekend, the police stopped three drunk drivers on the streets of Lucerne. The breath test showed between 1.02 and 1.64 per mille in the blood. On Monday, a 42-year-old man from Ukraine was stopped in Hochdorf for driving on the main road with a breath alcohol level of the equivalent of 1.74 per mille (0.87 mg/l). In Lucerne, a 28-year-old Italian woman was stopped with a blood alcohol level of 0.8. Shortly afterwards, a 30-year-old man from Kosovo was noticed driving on the A2 motorway with a blood alcohol level of 1.90. As the police wrote in a statement, a 33-year-old driver from Kosovo was also stopped because he was under the influence of drugs.
In the city of Lucerne, a cyclist who was heavily intoxicated caused an accident. The 50-year-old man from Eritrea crashed into a traffic sign on the Xylophone Trail and injured himself. In Horw, a 58-year-old man who had previously driven a car and had a breath alcohol level of 1.4 per mille was checked.
The police confiscated the driving licenses of four people. She also points out that errant drivers are punished with fines in the canton of Lucerne. For example, anyone caught behind the wheel with a blood alcohol level of 0.8 will have their vehicle license revoked for three months. In addition, driving while intoxicated can lead to a warning, the revocation of your license or a driving fitness test. (rem)
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