2% of drunk drivers caught between 7am and 9am
22/11/2006 - 07:43:17It has emerged that only 2% of drink drivers are caught between 7am and 9am in the morning.
The revelation follows much criticism of Garda checkpoints being mounted in a bid to catch people the morning after a night out.
However, Garda figures published in this morning's Irish Independent show that out of 445 people arrested over the course of a week, only 11 were caught in the morning, and none of them were caught at the special breath checkpoints.
Gardaí insist that the majority of these breathalysing checkpoints are carried out at high crash periods at the weekends and in the early hours of the morning.
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