699 booked for drunk driving in Bengaluru during week-long police crackdown

In a week-long peculiar thrust against drunken driving, the Bengaluru Traffic Police booked 699 motorists for driving nether the power of intoxicant aft checking much than 41,000 vehicles crossed Bengaluru. The enforcement campaign, conducted from May 25 to May 31, besides targeted overspeeding, taking the full fig of cases registered during the thrust to 1,086.

The cognition was carried retired by unit from each 53 postulation constabulary stations successful Bengaluru arsenic portion of efforts to amended roadworthy information and trim accidents caused by reckless driving.

During the anti-drunk driving drive, constabulary checked 41,033 vehicles and registered 699 cases against violators. A full good of ₹2.33 lakh was collected.

In the simultaneous crackdown connected overspeeding, constabulary registered 387 cases and collected ₹1.56 lakh successful fines.

Traffic constabulary said that the peculiar enforcement thrust was aimed astatine curbing the duplicate threats of drunken driving and overspeeding, some of which are among the starring causes of roadworthy accidents successful the city.

A elder authoritative said “similar drives volition proceed successful the coming weeks to guarantee stricter compliance with postulation regulations and heighten commuter safety.”