The highest number of road accidents occurs due to drunken drivers and to curb increasing number of accidents special drive across the State to check drunk and driving 10,608 people were penalised and a penalty of Rs 38,94761 was collected from August 5 to August 16.
The Traffic police had recently launched a campaign against drunken driving and the figures collected from different districts are surprising. In the drive recommendation of suspension of driving license of 1127 has been made.
After the instructions were made by the Home Minister Bhupendra Singh to organise a drive against drunken drivers to curb increasing number of road accidents and during the drive penalty of Rs 3894761 was collected by police and imposed by court.
Out of the total vehicles drivers 9788 were of two wheelers, 524 of four wheeler, 16 of buses, 69 of trucks and 211 of other vehicles.
The highest number of vehicles drivers found drunk and driving were in Indore district where a total of 2015 drivers were penalized. Ratlam was second with 722 penalties.
Betul district with 526 penalized drivers was third. City was fourth in the list with 539 vehicles penalties.
Among other places drivers with penalties were Gwalior 473, Shivpuri 237, Guna 145 and Ashok Nagar 114, Morena 461, Bhind 331, Sheopur 55,Datia 307,Dhar 160, Jhabua 5, Alirajpur 1, Khargone 11, Barwani 4, Burhanpur 40,Ujjain 359, Mandsaur 142, Neemuch 126, Ratlam 722, Dewas 92, Shajapur 188, Agar 15,Jabalpur 249, Katni 39, Chhindwara 59, Seoni 222, Narsinghpur 255, Balaghat 316, Mandla 238,Sagar 213, Panna 107, Damoh 159, Chhatarpur 146, Tikamgarh 191,Rewa 158, Satna 137, Sidhi 30, Singrauli 92, Shahdol 46, Umaria 38, Anuppur 15, Dindori 43, Hoshangabad 203, Harda 36, Raisen 81 and Sehore 149, Rajgarh 161and Vidisha 96.