NewsWhore
09-07-2009, 04:10 PM
The Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) has issued over 850,000 tickets for traffic violations over the past year, an average of 2,850 per day. These tickets were issued for disobeying traffic signs and signals, excess speed, reckless driving or for consuming alcoholic beverages while driving, among other issues. According to AMET, these are the main causes of the accidents that leave dozens dead and hundreds injured each year.
AMET press director Miguel Medina told Listin Diario that since August 2008 in the National District alone, AMET issued 722,000 summonses for traffic violations, including non-use of seatbelts, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, driving without lights, going through a red light and drunk driving. Also included among the violations are carrying a child under the age of 8 in the front seat, using bald tires, carrying too many passengers, driving on sidewalks, and many other violations.
In Santiago, AMET has handed out 36,000 summonses, 7,700 in La Vega, 8,000 in Moca, 4,800 in Jarabacoa, 3,400 in Puerto Plata, 3,700 in Sosua, 5,500 in Mao, and in the east, they have handed out more than 40,000 tickets.
Over the last few weeks, more than 10 people have been killed on the nation's highways, including 4 in a crash between two buses in Bani last Friday. On the new highway that goes to Samana, there have been 18 fatalities along the stretch that goes through Monte Plata province, and for this reason AMET is placing more agents all along the major highways.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)
AMET press director Miguel Medina told Listin Diario that since August 2008 in the National District alone, AMET issued 722,000 summonses for traffic violations, including non-use of seatbelts, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, driving without lights, going through a red light and drunk driving. Also included among the violations are carrying a child under the age of 8 in the front seat, using bald tires, carrying too many passengers, driving on sidewalks, and many other violations.
In Santiago, AMET has handed out 36,000 summonses, 7,700 in La Vega, 8,000 in Moca, 4,800 in Jarabacoa, 3,400 in Puerto Plata, 3,700 in Sosua, 5,500 in Mao, and in the east, they have handed out more than 40,000 tickets.
Over the last few weeks, more than 10 people have been killed on the nation's highways, including 4 in a crash between two buses in Bani last Friday. On the new highway that goes to Samana, there have been 18 fatalities along the stretch that goes through Monte Plata province, and for this reason AMET is placing more agents all along the major highways.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)