Overview
- A transport‑vehicle driver was stopped in Leinefelde‑Worbis and after initially trying to frustrate testing produced a breath result of 2.4‰ that led officers to take his driving licence at the scene.
- Police said the 49‑year‑old first blew too weakly into the device before completing the test correctly and later produced his identity card after finding it.
- Earlier the Autobahnpolizei intercepted a 28‑year‑old cycling on the A71 between Kölleda and Sömmerda‑Ost and found a breath result of 0.87‰ during a control around 2:00 a.m.
- Because the cyclist’s measured value was below the 1.6‰ criminal threshold and no signs of impairment were seen, officers issued a warning and escorted him off the autobahn.
- Reporting stresses that on‑scene breath testing and Germany’s statutory BAC thresholds — 1.6‰ for cyclists or 0.3‰ with observable impairment — shaped the contrasting outcomes for the two cases.