Bill: Tougher penalties for dangerous driving and reckless driving
Official title (in Danish): Forslag til lov om ændring af færdselsloven og lov om godkendelse og syn af køretøjer. (Skærpelse af sanktionerne for farlig kørsel og vanvidskørsel, lempelse af klippekortordningen for udrykningsførere, dispensation ved tilladelser til særtransporter og opkrævning af vejafgiftsbøder)
In short
Reading time: 1 min- What is proposed:
- The bill proposes tougher penalties for dangerous driving and more lenient penalty point rules for drivers of emergency vehicles.
- The Danish Road Directorate must also be able to grant exemptions allowing special transports such as block trucks to depart from certain traffic rules when they have received permission for the trip.
- And the Danish Road Traffic Authority must be able to check and collect overdue and unpaid road toll fines from foreign vehicles at the roadside (though not from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden).
- Who would be affected: It will affect motorists who drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs or in a particularly reckless manner, drivers of emergency vehicles, special transports, and foreign vehicles with unpaid road toll fines.
- When: The bill has not been passed yet.
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If the bill is passed:
- If you drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs and negligently cause the death or serious injury of another person, you will as a general rule lose your driving licence unconditionally for at least three years. This applies regardless of the blood alcohol level.
- In the same cases, the car will as a general rule be confiscated. This applies already the first time and regardless of who owns the car.
- All cases of particularly reckless driving as a general rule lead to the unconditional loss of your driving licence for at least three years.
- Drivers of emergency vehicles will not receive penalty points on their driving licence for the relevant offences when the conditions for emergency driving are met.
Sources and original
Read the official text (in Danish) →
Source: the Danish Parliament (ft.dk)
Translated from Danish · The Danish version and the original source apply.
Summary by the Danish Parliament (in Danish)
Forslaget skærper sanktionerne for alvorlige tilfælde af spiritus- og narkokørsel samt særlig hensynsløs kørsel. Der foreslås bl.a. længere frakendelse af førerretten og udvidet adgang til at konfiskere køretøjer, når kørslen har medført alvorlige personskader eller dødsfald. Samtidig lemper forslaget klippekortordningen for udrykningsførere, så mindre fejlvurderinger under udrykningskørsel ikke automatisk udløser et klip i kørekortet. Derudover får myndighederne mulighed for at dispensere fra visse færdselsregler ved særlige transporter af store eller tunge genstande, og der indføres mulighed for at kontrollere og opkræve ubetalte vejafgiftsbøder fra udenlandske køretøjer ved vejsidekontrol. Loven foreslås at træde i kraft den 1. januar 2027.
Source: Folketinget (ft.dk). Reproduced unchanged.
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- Introduced · 7 October 2026Status in the Danish Parliament: Fremsat
- PassedAwaiting the Danish Parliament
- Enters into forceThe date is not known yet