Overview
- Police in Constanța County stopped a woman driving 176 km/h on a narrow rural road in southeastern Romania shortly before Orthodox Easter.
- She told officers she was hurrying because a cozonac, a traditional Romanian Easter sweet bread, was in her oven and might burn.
- The Constanța police described the speed as “testing the limits of physics” and labeled the excuse a “culinary drama” in a Facebook post.
- Authorities fined her more than 1,800 lei, about €350, and suspended her license for four months.
- Local reports put the speed limit on that stretch at 80 km/h, which shows how far over the limit she was on a narrow road.