Around 15,000 motorists get back in the state of Hesse due to a formal error in the new catalog of fines your driver’s license or don’t have to give in the first place. This is the Central fines unit confirmed to the government Presidium in Kassel on Tuesday, the German press Agency.

Around 1000 procedures, with the driving ban had already become final, the case 300 with the exception of the leaders had been sent tickets already to the fine. These would now be sent in a timely manner back to stakeholders. First of all, hessenschau.de had “reported” about it.

“In the legal process is to pay the fine and the point remains the same,” said the fine point. “Not-yet-legal proceedings were set ex officio.” New cases would in future be processed in accordance with the previously applicable schedule of fines.

legal basis

was missing Since April, a new catalog of fines, among other things, the hardness of penalties for speeders did was nationwide. It is a month of driver’s license threatened withdrawal, if you are driving urban 21 kilometers per hour too fast or extra-urban 26 kilometers an hour – was previously this limit by 31 km/h in town and 41 km/h outside.

But the new catalogue had a form error. In the input formula, the law lacked a basis for the new bans. Therefore, the Federal government had prompted the beginning of July, the country, the old catalog to apply.