More than 600 vehicles seized in anti-drunk campaign
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As of Wednesday, 612 vehicles had been seized from drunk car and motorcycle drivers since Christmas, while 104 traffic deaths have been recorded in the first two of the seven dangerous days of the year-end period.
Colonel Sirichan Ngathong, deputy spokeswoman of the military’s ruling National Council for Peace and Order, said Thursday that on Wednesday alone, Army officers manning checkpoints nationwide found 3,055 violations of the drunk-driving ban by motorcyclists, sent 3,395 of them to be cited for traffic offences and impounded 334 motorbikes.
They caught 1,654 car or public-transport drivers violating the ban, took custody of the driver’s licences from 176 of them, passed 1,555 of them for booking and confiscated nine cars.
From December 25-30, officers detained 547 motorcycles and 65 cars and passed 4,375 motorcyclists and 2,219 car and public-transport drivers for legal action, she said.
