According to Croatian police, a man stopped at the border crossing with a dead woman in the passenger seat of a car
Croatian authorities arrested an Austrian citizen on suspicion of trying to smuggle a body after he was stopped at a border crossing with a dead woman in the passenger seat of his car, police said Tuesday.
The 65-year-old man was stopped at the Gunja border crossing into Bosnia in late November after presenting travel documents for himself and another passenger, police said in a statement carried by the AFP news agency.
Officers became suspicious when they noticed the passenger was “unconscious and not communicating.”
Police called a coroner to the scene, who determined the passenger was dead.
Authorities said the 83-year-old woman died in Bosnia and that the driver tried to take her body to Austria to “avoid formalities related to the transport of the deceased,” the statement added.
Police did not provide any information about the relationship between the two, but local media described the man as the deceased’s legal guardian.
Police said the case had been officially handed over to the country’s public prosecutor’s office.
In the USA, drivers have also been found with bodies in their vehicles for various reasons. Last year, a man was arrested in Texas after a A man’s body was found in his car Nearly 40 miles from where police believe he was hit by the car.
In 2014, a Detroit-area man said he refused to stop and contact authorities afterward One of his passengers died while driving from Arizona to Michigan because he feared he would be detained in the event of a police investigation. Four years earlier, police said a Southern California woman drove around in a homeless woman’s car for months mummified body in her passenger seat.
