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Speeding to be curbed.

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Speeding motorists could now be stripped off their vehicles.

Some incidents that have lead to this move include:

* Racing through a tunnel at 200 kmh by a 23-year-old. A Zurich district prosecutor is taking legal steps to impound this man's car.

* The killing of a 16-year-old passenger in the hills above Lake Zurich when the car he was travelling in (apparently racing another vehicle) slammed into a roadside signpost.

* The recent deaths of three people and injuries to three others in canton St Gallen in a crash when a 24-year-old driver sped headfirst into an on-coming vehicle.

* The critical injuries in Dietikon, near Zurich, in a late-night race.

In many of the cases, the drivers were immigrants mainly from the former republics of Yugoslavia. This fact was recently highlighted by Peter-Martin Meier, the chief of St Gallen's traffic police, who said that a study showed that young men from the Balkans were over-represented in cantonal accident statistics. In 2002, they accounted for 17 per cent of major speeding-related accidents. Today, this figure has risen to 24 per cent.

The Swiss authorities have...

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