1600 booked for drunk driving on New Year’s eve!

On Saturday the 31 of December, the DCP of Hyderabad Traffic Police, A.V. Ranganath, issued that all those caught Diving Under the Influence will not only have cases registered against them but will also lead to litigations in the passport verification and visa approval. The Police warned to share details of DUI with the consulates for this ignominy. On New Year’s Eve, 100 checkpoints were set up in the city to avoid any drunken drivers from escaping. NTR Marg, Necklace Road, and Upper Tank Bund area were completely shut down. Also, all the flyovers around the city were closed to avoid traffic drunk accident. All the heavy vehicles and trucks and travel buses were not allowed into the city.

1600 hundred vehicles were seized for drunk driving.

But despite such strict arrangements to prohibit accidents, police reports say that they registered as many as 1,594 drunk driving cases in the three Commissionerates on New Year’s eve in Hyderabad city limits. The Hyderabad Police, Cyberabad Police and Rachakonda Police registered 957, 400 and 237 cases respectively.

All the vehicles were seized on the spot and the Police faced problems– as the vehicles seized were more than the guards present and also there were not enough parking spaces in the civil police and traffic police stations where the vehicles had to be kept.