Police enhance breathalyser patrols during this week

Police will engage in intensified drunk driving monitoring, particularly in holiday home municipalities, throughout the country from July 29 to Aug 4, said an official press release.

Almost a third of the entire year’s road deaths occur during the summer. The number of cases involving drunk driving and causing a serious traffic hazard (speeding) increases in the summer.

“Young road users with risk behaviour associated with things like summer events and other leisure activities form a special risk group,” said Chief Superintendent of the National Police Board Timo Ajaste.

A typical accident involving personal injury during the summer is running off the road outside densely populated areas late in the evening or at night. The accident often involves speeding or drunk driving.

“Nobody should take the risk and drive while drunk or be a passenger in a car with a drunk driver,” Ajaste said.