BUDAPEST (dpa): Romanian police fined a driver for speeding after she explained she had to hurry or her cake would burn.
The woman said she had left a cake in the oven on the day before Orthodox Easter.
Police noted she was driving at 176 kilometres per hour, far too fast for a narrow country road in the south-east of the country.
The driver had "tested the limits of physics” at that speed and tried to justify it with a "culinary drama”, the Constanta County Police Inspectorate said in a Facebook post.
She said she was baking the traditional cozonac, a Romanian yeast cake made with raisins or nuts at Easter.
Predominantly Orthodox Christians in Romania are celebrating Easter this weekend, a week after Catholics and Protestants.
The woman was fined more than 1,800 lei (US$410), which police said would be enough for "20 ready-baked premium-quality cozonacs”.
Furthermore, her driving licence has been suspended for four months, meaning she now "has enough time as a pedestrian to learn all the secrets of baking”, the police said. -- dpa
