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Police May Fine Drivers for Curtains that Overlap Side Windows - Dutch Court Ruling

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Source: Judgment ECLI:NL:RBZWB:2025:7447 of 23 July 2025, published on 31 October 2025. Can curtains covering a truck's side windows constitute grounds for issuing a ticket? And can a police officer base this decision on their subjective impressions? A Dutch court recently issued a judgment that addressed precisely this issue. The case began in August 2023, on the Dutch A58 motorway near Kapelle. Police stopped a truck whose curtains had been fo…
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Source: Judgment ECLI:NL:RBZWB:2025:7447 of 23 July 2025, published on 31 October 2025. Can curtains covering a truck's side windows constitute grounds for issuing a ticket? And can a police officer base this decision on their subjective impressions? A Dutch court recently issued a judgment that addressed precisely this issue. The case began in August 2023, on the Dutch A58 motorway near Kapelle. Police stopped a truck whose curtains had been fo…

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40ton.net broke the news in on Monday, November 3, 2025.
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