Busy start to festive road blitz
By
NIGEL MALTHUS
The first week-end of the Christmas drink-driving blitz was a busy one for the Christchurch Ministry of Transport. The blitz officially began last Monday with extra staff being rostered on to bolster the checkpoint campaign which has been on throughout the year.
By far the busiest period of the week-end was the first shift, from 3 p.m. to midnight on Friday, when 876 drivers were stopped, either at checkpoints or by routine patrols. Acting Traffic Sergeant Peter Carmody said that 37 drivers were given breath alcohol screening tests, and of those, 18 were judged sufficiently affected by alcohol to be required to take evidential breath tests. Over the whole week-end, 1201 motorists were stopped, 64
screened and 35 went on to evidential breath tests. There were also seven blood tests taken. Two people refused to give blood samples, and one person was arrested for refusing to give particulars. Sergeant Carmody said that the number of evidential tests suggested a high number of drinking drivers on the roads. There were also 16 non-injury and 12 injury accidents over the week-end.
The injury accidents included a hit and run in Stanmore Road about 1.20 a.m. on Saturday, when a woman pedestrian, aged 29, suffered moderate leg injuries from being struck by a car.
The car drove off after the accident, and the Ministry of Transport was later seeking an orange or mustard coloured Holden station waggon.
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