Man stopped at border crossing with useless lady in automotive’s passenger seat, Croatia police say

Croatian authorities arrested an Austrian nationwide on suspicion of making an attempt to smuggle a corpse, after he was stopped at a border crossing with a useless lady using in his automotive’s passenger seat, police mentioned Tuesday.

The 65-year-old man was stopped on the Gunja border crossing with Bosnia in late November after presenting journey paperwork for himself and one other passenger, police informed AFP in a press release.

The officers then turned suspicious after noticing the feminine passenger “was not aware and was not speaking.”

Police known as a coroner to the scene, who established that the passenger was useless.

Authorities mentioned the 83-year-old lady had died in Bosnia, and the driving force had tried to take her physique to again Austria to “keep away from formalities associated to the transport of deceased,” the assertion added.

Police didn’t elaborate on the connection between the 2, however native media has described the person because the deceased’s authorized guardian.

Police mentioned the case had been formally handed over to the nation’s prosecutors.

Drivers within the U.S. have additionally been discovered with corpses of their autos for quite a lot of totally different causes. Final 12 months, a person in Texas was arrested after a man’s physique was discovered inside his automotive practically 40 miles away from the place police there imagine he was hit by the automotive. 

In 2014, a Detroit-area man mentioned he refused to cease and make contact with authorities after one among his passengers died throughout a drive to Michigan from Arizona as a result of he feared being incarcerated if police investigated. 4 years earlier than that, police mentioned a Southern California lady drove round for months with a homeless lady’s mummified physique in her passenger seat.