Key legal question
Whether reading and holding a newspaper in a slow-moving traffic jam violated road-traffic duties under Art. 31 SVG and Art. 3 VRV
Extracted holding
Under the concrete road and traffic conditions, the conduct did not constitute a punishable impairment of vehicle control or an actionable obstruction; the conviction could not stand.
Extracted reasoning
The situation involved a straight, well-developed road, good weather, and only short movements of a few meters in stop-and-go traffic. The driver could still control the car properly, and any impairment from the newspaper's position was too slight to be criminally relevant; the speculative risk of a newspaper slipping was practically excluded.