Stolpe (dpa / mv) – The police pulled two vans heavily overloaded with carpets and a hazardous substance on the Autobahn 24 Berlin-Hamburg. As a police spokesman said on Tuesday, the two drivers were caught on Monday during a control near Stolpe near Parchim.
A 40-year-old driver had loaded around a ton too much methyl methacrylate, a highly flammable liquid used in the manufacture of acrylic glass, on the vehicle. The driver wanted to go to Hamburg. He had to stop, request another vehicle to reload and face a fine of several hundred euros.
Almost at the same time, a van with Berlin license plates was stopped, which weighed a total of 5,300 kilograms instead of the permitted 3,500 kilograms. The driver had loaded masses of carpets. He was also forbidden to continue his journey. The 22-year-old driver also had to pay a fine of more than 200 euros and cope with a point in the register of traffic offenders, it said.
