Question juridique clé
Whether driving on the shoulder to pass a traffic jam and enter a rest stop constituted gross traffic rule violation.
Solution extraite
Yes. The shoulder is not a regular lane, and using it to overtake slow traffic for faster progress is prohibited and seriously endangers road safety.
Motifs extraits
The court applied the ban on right overtaking and shoulder use. In the traffic situation, other drivers could not expect a vehicle on the shoulder; the maneuver created at least an increased abstract danger, which here was concretized by a near-collision.