"The road", with an iron hand/ Thousands of fines for drivers

2024-06-09 11:14:00, Kronika CNA

"The road", with an iron hand/ Thousands of fines for drivers

Taken from the Tirana police video

In order to prevent road accidents, starting from the increase in the flow of vehicles, the Traffic Police Directorate has increased the measures throughout the country, increasing the monitoring with intelligent means of the movement of vacationers' vehicles towards the beaches and their return to the destination. as well as adding mobile patrols along these axes, for cooperation with the General Patrols and "Eagles", which are planned in the coastal areas.

During this week, throughout the country, by the Traffic Police, as a result of the increase of controls with intelligent vehicles, automatic radars, drones, dredges and finally telescopes, to identify mobile phone users while driving:

- 121 driving licenses were suspended, for speeding above the permitted rates, for driving under the influence of alcohol/in a drunken state, and for driving in the opposite direction;

- 31 drivers were arrested, of these 24 for driving while intoxicated and 7 for driving without a driving license, as well as a case of attempting to bribe a police officer, in order to avoid the administrative measure, was investigated.

Also, 26,841 administrative measures have been imposed throughout the country, of which:

* 7632 for speeding beyond the permitted rates, but without the additional measure of driving license suspension;

* 1356 for using a mobile phone while driving;

* 1468 for not using the seat belt;

* 1846 for wrong passes;

* 857 for not wearing a protective helmet;

* 435 for speed and dangerous maneuvers on the road;

* 248 for driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol;

* 10711 for wrong parking;

* 2288 for various violations.

Even during the next week, the Traffic Police services will intensively continue the monitoring on all urban, interurban and rural roads, using the intelligent tools and the modern logistic base at their disposal, in order to increase the parameters of road safety.

The Traffic Police appeals to all drivers of vehicles and motor vehicles, to strictly implement the traffic rules, to use alternative routes, to stay in line when there is a slowdown in the movement of vehicles in cases of traffic, to give priority to pedestrians and not to make wrong passes or dangerous maneuvers in urban centers and national axes.

In order to increase road safety parameters, the State Police invites citizens to report any violation of road traffic rules to the toll-free number 112.