Facts
The appellant [A.] is accused of, on March 30, 2022 at 1:40 am in Neuendorf (SO), on the A1 motorway in the direction of Zurich, as the driver of the passenger car AG xxx, having coupled the goods transport trailer AG yyy with a total weight of 3.5 t and equipped it only with a loose breakaway cable laid over the trailer coupling, thereby putting the trailer into circulation in an unsafe condition and driving it.
The District Court of Thal-Gäu, in its judgment of October 31, 2022, found [A.] guilty of driving an unsafe vehicle, committed on March 30, 2022, and sentenced him to a fine of CHF 200.--. The High Court of the Canton of Solothurn also found [A.] guilty of driving an unsafe vehicle, committed on March 30, 2022, and sentenced him as an additional penalty to the summary penalty order of the Public Prosecutor's Office Winterthur/Unterland of September 12, 2022 to a fine of CHF 100.--.
[A.] has filed a criminal complaint against the judgment of the High Court of the Canton of Solothurn.
Considerations
The Federal Supreme Court dismisses the complaint, insofar as it is admissible.
The Federal Supreme Court considers the factual findings of the lower instance to be non-arbitrary. As a professional driver, the appellant could recognize that the loose breakaway cable laid over the trailer coupling would not fulfill its function of activating the trailer's brakes in the event of an unintentional detachment. This constituted an unsafe condition of the vehicle…