Municipal Liability for Visibility at a Field Entrance

16 Ds-30 Js 474/17-86/18Tribunal de première instance6 mars 2019Droit pénalAcquitté

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Résumé Omnilex

The Local Court of Beckum acquitted the defendants and ordered the State Treasury to bear the proceedings costs and the defendants’ necessary expenses. The judgment concerned the scope of municipal traffic-safety duties in relation to community-owned agricultural paths and visibility at a junction near a tall maize field. It stated that the statutory road-maintenance duty for such paths requires dedication as public roads, which requires county consent, and that the general traffic-safety duty does not require visibility triangles to be kept clear at junctions to public roads.

Regeste Omnilex

StrWG NRW § 3 Abs. 1, § 6 Abs. 2, § 35 Abs. 1; StrKrVO § 1 Abb. 3, § 5; municipal road-maintenance and traffic-safety duties. Section 35 StrWG NRW applies only to intersections of public roads. A municipality's responsibility as road-maintenance authority for a community-owned agricultural path presupposes its dedication as a public road within the meaning of § 3 Abs. 1 Nos. 3 or 4 StrWG NRW; dedication requires the county's consent under § 6 Abs. 2 sentence 3 StrWG NRW. Independently, the general traffic-safety duty does not require visibility triangles at junctions with public roads to be kept clear of a tall maize field.

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Amtsgericht Beckum — 16 Ds-30 Js 474/17-86/18 — Urteil

Entscheidungsdatum: 2019-03-06

Aktenzeichen: 16 Ds-30 Js 474/17-86/18

ECLI: ECLI:DE:AGBE:2019:0306.16DS30JS474.17.86.00

Dokumenttyp: Urteil

Spruchkörper: Amtsgericht

Normen: StrWG NRW § 3 Abs. 1, § 6 Abs. 2, § 33 Abs. 1 S. 2, § 35 Abs. 1, § 36 Abs. 1; StrKrVO § 1 Abb. 3, § 5

Leitsätze

  1. § 35 StrWG NRW gilt nur für Kreuzungen öffentlicher Straßen.

  2. Die Verkehrssicherungspflicht der Gemeinde als Träger der Straßenbaulast setzt für im Eigentum der Gemeinde stehende Wirtschaftswege eine Widmung als öffentliche Straße im Sinne von § 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 3 oder Nr. 4 StrWG NRW voraus

  3. Die Widmung der im Eigentum der Gemeinde stehenden Wege als öffentliche Straße erfordert die Zu-stimmung des Landkreises, § 6 Abs. 2 S. 3 StrWG NRW.

  4. Die allgemeine Verkehrssicherungspflicht erfordert bei einem hochwachsenden Maisfeld nicht das Freihalten von Sichtdreiecken an Einmündungen zu öffentlichen Straßen.

Tenor

Die Angeklagten werden freigesprochen.

Die Kosten des Verfahrens und die notwendigen Auslagen der Angeklagten trägt die Landeskasse.

Mots-clés

traffic safetyroad maintenancepublic roadsroad dedicationvisibility at junctionsmunicipal liability

Questions juridiques clés extraites par Omnilex

Whether the defendants were criminally liable in connection with a failure to maintain visibility at a junction near a maize field.

The defendants were acquitted; the judgment states that the general traffic-safety duty does not require visibility triangles to be kept clear at junctions to public roads.

Section 35 of the North Rhine-Westphalia Roads and Paths Act applies only to intersections of public roads. A municipality's road-maintenance duty for its agricultural paths requires their dedication as public roads, with county consent; the general traffic-safety duty does not require visibility triangles to be kept clear at junctions to public roads near a tall maize field.

Allocation of proceedings costs and the defendants’ necessary expenses.

The State Treasury bears the costs of the proceedings and the defendants’ necessary expenses.

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