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.