More than a thousand drunk drive fines issued in Gauteng

Lusanda Bill
16 July 2011

More than 10-million vehicles and drivers have been checked and over four-and-a-half-million fines issued for various traffic offences over the past eight months across the country.

The Transport Department says last month’s arrests include more than one-and-a-half-thousand drivers nabbed for drunk driving.

Almost a thousand of them have been arrested in Gauteng.

Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has pleaded with road users to exercise extra caution as schools re-open next week.