New Delhi
A police barricade set as much as test drunk driving on New 12 months’s Eve. (Consultant photograph/HT Archive)
Delhi Police prosecuted 558 motorists for drink driving throughout New 12 months’s celebrations on the intervening night time of Tuesday and Wednesday, officers stated, including there was no fatality recorded this yr.
In response to police knowledge, 4 fatalities had been recorded final yr and 416 motorists had been prosecuted for drink driving, indicating a 34% rise within the offence. In 2020 and 2021, 19 and 25 motorists, respectively, had been penalised for drink driving whereas in 2022, it rose to 318, in keeping with knowledge shared by the Delhi Visitors Police.
“As part of our traffic arrangement for the New Year’s Eve, we deployed 88 teams, armed with breath analysers to check drink driving,” a senior visitors police officer, who requested to not be named, stated.
“Special pickets were also set up to check stunts on motorcycles, speeding, reckless and dangerous driving, in coordination with local police and PCR, at major points, such as Connaught Place, Mehrauli, Saket, Nehru Place, Vasant Vihar, South Extension., Rajouri Garden, Pitampura, Netaji Subhash Place, Laxmi Nagar and Mayur Vihar,” the officer stated.
Police stated the drive was carried out from the night of December 31 to 5am on January 1 to test offences, particularly drink driving, harmful and rash driving, wrong-side driving, triple using and driving or using with out seat belts and helmets.
Police stated that in all, 4,583 motorists had been penalised for an array of violations:35 for harmful driving, 205 to motorists driving on the improper aspect, 35 for triple using, and 648 for using with out helmets. The visitors police impounded 63 autos on the spot.
Moreover, homeowners of 1,688 autos had been penalised for improper parking, and 106 automobile drivers had been penalised for having tinted home windows.