About 1 500 drunk drivers have been arrested country-wide since the beginning of December, the national transport department said on Thursday.
"From 1 to 21 December 1.1 million vehicles and drivers were checked, [and] 1,500 drunk drivers arrested with 40% of these being female," [Pappa wag nie vir julle dronkgat vrouens nie] department spokesperson Logan Maistry said in a statement.
Since October 1 more than 1.5 million fines had been issued for various traffic offences.
About a third of them related to drivers not carrying their driving licences.
More than 20,00 unroadworthy vehicles, including several buses and taxis, were taken off the road over the same period and more than 4,000 drunk drivers arrested.
Over 860 people had died in road accidents since the start of the festive season.
- SAPA
"From 1 to 21 December 1.1 million vehicles and drivers were checked, [and] 1,500 drunk drivers arrested with 40% of these being female," [Pappa wag nie vir julle dronkgat vrouens nie] department spokesperson Logan Maistry said in a statement.
Since October 1 more than 1.5 million fines had been issued for various traffic offences.
About a third of them related to drivers not carrying their driving licences.
More than 20,00 unroadworthy vehicles, including several buses and taxis, were taken off the road over the same period and more than 4,000 drunk drivers arrested.
Over 860 people had died in road accidents since the start of the festive season.
- SAPA
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