Justice Minister cracks down on drunk drivers

The prosecutors are to motion for the confiscation of the vehicles if the drunk driver causes a serious accident, if they have more than 1 promil of alcohol in their blood, or if they are a repeat offender. If the vehicle the drunk driver is driving does not belong to them, they will have to pay a fine amounting to the value of the vehicle. "These measures appeal to the drivers' imagination and have proved to be efficient in other countries," declared Ziobro," For example in New York the number of drunk drivers decreased thanks to the confiscation of cars," he added. In 2005 the police officers revealed 85,000 cases of drunk driving. Drunk drivers caused over 4,000 road accidents in 2005. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 7) E.B.