The State Traffic Inspectorate will strengthen control over drivers during the May holidays

In the upcoming holidays and weekends, from April 30 to May 5, the State Traffic Inspectorate will conduct massive and continuous checks of drivers, special attention will be paid to the search for drunk motorists. The upcoming raids were announced by the regional departments of the department.

Traffic police will carry out preventive measures on the roads of the Republic of Karelia, Kostroma, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo, Kirov, Ulyanovsk, Moscow, Chelyabinsk regions, Primorsky Krai, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and other regions of the country.

On the eve of the holidays, the State Traffic Inspectorate reminds drivers about the inadmissibility of driving while intoxicated. Mass checks on Russian roads to identify drivers who have got behind the wheel after drinking alcohol are carried out on weekends by traffic inspectors on an ongoing basis, the department emphasizes.

"Driving under the influence of alcohol is unacceptable and endangers the lives of not only the driver himself, who got behind the wheel after drinking alcohol, but also his passengers, as well as other road users. Do not remain indifferent when you see that a drunk person gets behind the wheel of a car or motorcycle, behaves inappropriately, creates dangerous situations on the road: report this to the police. Employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate will definitely take all necessary measures to respond to such reports," said Police Colonel Anton Belan, Deputy head of the Department for Road Safety Promotion and Prevention of Child traffic Injuries at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

He recalled that driving under the influence of alcohol, as well as refusing a medical examination, entails the deprivation of a driver's license for a period of one and a half to two years and a heavy fine. In addition, in some cases, the driver faces criminal liability for these acts.

Earlier that day, it became known that during a preventive raid that took place on April 25-29, the capital's traffic police issued more than 2.6 thousand resolutions against drivers who violated foreign license plates. The total amount of fines issued amounted to 3.1 million rubles.