170 km / h on the A1 – The pensioner Lostorfer accidentally flashes at double speed – Canton (Aargau) – Aargau

“It lit up the A1 at 170 km / h,” the retired pharmaceutical director told “Blick.” But he is sure that the speedometer only read 85km / h. What happened?

Erich Marrer from Lostorf was going on vacation to Ticino. At the entrance to the A1 in Rothrist, he would have lined up behind a truck. Soon after, it brightened up. His glance at the dash showed him that it hadn’t even reached the top speed of 100 km / h. Then he saw the matter resolved.

The fight starts two weeks later

When he returned home in early August, a letter from the Solothurn canton police awaited him, “Blick” continues. The 65-year-old should report to the police station. There he would have learned that it was the alleged speeding on the A1. “When I found out that I had been shot at about 170 km / h and this is in the radar photo, I almost fell out of my chair,” Marrer told Blick.

The Solothurn man reportedly had to intervene with the police several times and insist on his innocence, until a radar specialist discovered the errant speed camera. Aargau’s colleagues accidentally measured the speed twice as high.

Asked by “Blick”, Aline Rey, spokesperson for the cantonal police of Aargau, explains how this error could occur: “The measurement is a ‘double reflection measurement’, which occurred through a special constellation of the position of a truck with car. When you do, the double measurement value is displayed incorrectly. »

The policeman on duty would not have recognized the double measure, so it was human error. This police officer reported the accused, admitted his mistake and apologized. Erich Marrer is happy for “Blick” that the matter has been resolved: “The case shows that it is worth defending itself. Otherwise, he would have had to go to court and go to jail. “ (mma)

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