Incidents of driving, rest time violations on rise

The Police detected the total of 215 driving and rest time violations during an intensive nation-wide control campaign last week (from October 10 to October 16).

The number was 140 in the control week took place in July, said the National Police Board in a press release on Tuesday.

The Police conducted the intensive campaign focusing on heavy traffic involving all Police departments.

“The number of detected driving and rest times violations is still far too high in relation to the total number of controlled vehicles,” said Chief Superintendent of the National Police Board Kari Onninen.

The number of sanctions issued for lacking order of vehicles was 133. In 29 cases, the vehicle was totally banned from driving any further.

“A smaller number of sanctions was issued on vehicles not working properly whereas the number of bans on continued driving was this time higher than earlier. As a whole, the improvements did not meet the expectations,” he added.

The cargo was secured inadequately in 73 vehicles controlled while 39 overloads were found by the Police.

During the campaign, the Police detected 8 drivers who did not have the licence to drive the vehicle in question.

During the campaign, a total of 1920 heavy vehicles were controlled, a superior number than the objectives set for the controls. About 20 percent of all vehicles were registered abroad.

The total of 429 different sanctions were issued to the drivers. The proportion of the sanctions was the same as in the corresponding controls during the past year. Some drivers received sanctions for several simultaneous violations.