Couple 'caught having sex at 87mph' nearly cause motorway pile-up

A couple who were allegedly having sex while driving at 87mph reportedly nearly sparked a massive motorway pile-up on Germany's Autobahn. The vehicle the couple, aged 37 and 33, were reportedly in was spotted veering dangerously across the A1 motorway on Monday.

At one point, the Ford the pair were allegedly travelling in pulled so hard to the right that a truck was forced onto the hard shoulder, according to local media. One witness called the police after he drove past the car and claimed to have seen a male driver and female passenger having sex. The man was arrested at a petrol station just outside the city of Münster in western Germany.

He now faces criminal proceedings for dangerous interference with road traffic. Germany's Autobahn, the federal highway system, is renowned for having large sections with no mandatory upper speed limit.

In these areas, an advisory speed limit of (81mph) applies, but drivers are free to go faster if conditions allow and they can safely control their vehicle.

Speed limits do apply to approximately 30% of the roads. Autobahn's feature multiple lanes, wide shoulders, and banked curves with no intersections or stoplights - only controlled access ramps.

Despite the speeds, Autobahns have one of the lowest fatality rates per kilometre in Europe.

A political debate about whether to introduce general speed limts has rumbled on for decades, however, any attempts to impose a blanket limit have faced strong opposition from drivers' associations, parts of the auto industry and some political groups.

When travelling on a de-restricted section, drivers should only ever use the left-hand lane for overtaking other vehicles as doing so on the right is forbidden.

Spanning 7456 miles The Autobahn was originally designed in the 1930s as a high-speed road network to connect major cities efficiently.