Blitz on drinking and driving nets 30
| A Saturday night blitz by [traffic officers in, the ! Tauranga-Mount Maunganui [ area on drinking and driving [netted about 30 drivers. The blitz was held two [weeks before the Ministry of [Transport will launch a I national campaign against [drinking and driving. [ The senior chief traffic officer in the Bay of Plenty (Mr T. R. Hoskin) said last evening: “We thought it would be advantageous to have a
before-and-after study of the situation.”
Mr Hoskin described the move as “not a campaign, but just normal traffic enforcement," but he said extra traffic officers had been drafted into the area for the period from about 7 p.m. on Saturday until after 4 a.m. on Sunday morning.
A total of 18 traffic officers were on duty in Tauranga and Mount Maunganui during this time. Mr Hoskin said they stopped about 40 motor-
ists who attracttd their attention for breaches of the traffic law's. . .
About '3O returned positive breath-tests, and later gave blood samples to doctors. These will be analysed by the D.5.1.R., and if they show that the drivers’ blood-alcohol ratio was above the legal limit, they will be prosecuted. • “We are getting more and more people killed on the roads this year, and it is time we did something about it,” Mr Hoskin said.
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