Court decision: Hit-and-run with car-sharing car: driver's license gone immediately?
Hit-and-run with a car-sharing car? One detail can be decisive when it comes to the temporary withdrawal of the driving license. A court had to clarify which damage counts.
The Landgericht Berlin has ruled that a car-sharing company's vehicle damage cannot be automatically included in the assessment of whether a significant third-party damage was caused in a hit-and-run incident. In a recent case, a driver was accused of fleeing the scene of an accident and the authorities sought to revoke his driving license due to significant third-party damage.
However, the court decided that the damage to the car-sharing vehicle did not constitute significant third-party damage as it was not a third-party interest. The court set a threshold of 1,500 euros for significant damage and the damage to the other vehicle was assessed at 1,000 euros. The driver's license, which had been provisionally revoked, was ordered to be returned.
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