Croatian police said a man stopped at a border crossing with a dead woman in the passenger seat of the car

Croatian authorities arrested an Austrian national on suspicion of trying to smuggle a body, after stopping him at a border crossing with a dead woman sitting in the passenger seat of his car, police said Tuesday.

Police told AFP in a statement that the 65-year-old man was stopped at the Gonja border crossing with Bosnia in late November after he presented travel documents for himself and another passenger.

Officers then became suspicious after noticing that the female passenger “was not conscious and was not communicating.”

The police called the coroner to the scene, who confirmed the death of the passenger.

The statement added that the authorities said that the 83-year-old woman died in Bosnia, and the driver tried to transport her body to Austria “to avoid formalities related to transporting the deceased.”

The police did not clarify details about the relationship between the two, but local media described the man as the legal guardian of the deceased.

The police said that the case was officially referred to the country’s Public Prosecution.

Drivers in the United States have also been found with bodies in their cars for several different reasons. Last year, a man was arrested in Texas after… The man’s body was found inside his car About 40 miles from where police believe he was hit by the car.

In 2014, a Detroit-area man said he refused to stop and call authorities afterward One of his passengers died During a car trip to Michigan from Arizona because he was afraid he would be jailed if the police investigated. Four years earlier, police said a Southern California woman had been driving with a homeless woman for several months Mummified body In her passenger seat.