Almost five thousand drivers were detained for driving while intoxicated

Over the first eight months of this year, officers of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Volyn region detained 4,736 drivers who were driving vehicles while intoxicated. The majority of them, 4,577 drivers, were brought to administrative liability.

Among those who disregard their own lives and the lives of pedestrians by getting behind the wheel after a drink, 3,413 are unemployed and not working. The second category of offenders includes workers. Of these, 638 persons were detained. Two hundred ninety owners of private enterprises and entrepreneurs also did not escape liability for their recklessness. 145 drivers detained for driving while intoxicated are representatives of the executive and legislative authorities, officials and civil servants. Thus, in February of this year, the head of the executive service of the justice department of the Ivanychi district was detained while intoxicated; in July, the head of the technical maintenance station of the Kamin-Kashyrskyi RTP.

And on August 13, in the area of the village of Zhabka in the Kivertsi district, officers of a separate escort platoon stopped a car driven by the chairman of the Kivertsi district council, who was tipsy. One can conclude that traffic rules are violated by people who are called to be an example for the population.

Unfortunately, all these people do not think about the fact that their irresponsibility can have tragic consequences. Thus, as a result of a road traffic accident that occurred in Shatsk, a 26-year-old driver of an Opel-Omega car was killed, and a passenger ended up in the hospital. The driver, while intoxicated, exceeded the speed limit and lost control of the vehicle, which led to a collision with a roadside tree and the death of the young man. Very often, children and elderly people become victims of road accidents. They end up in the path of drunk drivers who do not think that their actions can take not only their own lives but also the lives of ordinary passengers and pedestrians, and bring grief to their own and others' families.