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NewsWhore
09-08-2006, 05:10 PM
During August, Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) agents wrote out 85,174 tickets for traffic infringements country-wide. This represents an increase of 20.39% on last July's 67,807 tickets. El Caribe reports on the data provided by the Information Technology department of AMET and placed on its website www.amet.gov.do (http://www.amet.gov.do). The most common infringement was failure to carry the vehicle inspection sticker (revista), totaling 23,277 tickets. Other infringements included obstruction of traffic, with 13,622 tickets; red traffic light violations, 9,595 tickets; seatbelt, 7,487 tickets; lack of signage for public cars or transit on wrong day, 6,238, and using a cell-phone while driving, 5,886 tickets.

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