Over 16K drunk drivers booked in '23: Police

Stern measures against the menace of drunk driving; drastic rise in the number of challans issued to violators

- UJWAL JALALI

DELHI Police took tough measures against the menace of drunken driving last year with a drastic rise in the number of challans issued throughout the year against people who were found driving a vehicle in an intoxicated state.

According to data shared by the traffic police, 16,173 people were booked for drunken driving in 2023 as against 2,225 such cases in 2022, 2,831 in 2021, and 3,986 in 2020.

Notably, drunk driving is a major cause of road accidents especially during night. Among the people who died in road accidents in the city in the year 2022, men constituted 90% of the total fatalities.

A traffic police official said it is the need of the hour that the violators booked for drunken driving be made to pay steeper fines and undergo harsher punishments to deter the violators from committing these violations again.