The traffic police will strengthen speed checks on the Minsk-Vitebsk highway from July 15-17

July 15, Minsk /BelTA correspondent/. On July 15, from 3:00 PM to July 17, 11:00 PM, the traffic police will conduct a large-scale check of major highways for compliance with speed limits and overtaking rules. The M-3 Minsk-Vitebsk highway will be under special control. This was reported to BelTA by Anna Banadyk, Senior Inspector for Special Assignments of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.

The traffic police plan to use their full arsenal of technical equipment and also advise drivers to be prepared for a little trick - inspectors will use unmarked vehicles equipped with "Arena" photo and video recording devices and speed radars. Information about speed limit violators will be automatically transmitted via GPRS channels to mobile traffic police units located near the settlements of Borovlyany, Ostroshitsky Gorodok, and the towns of Logoisk and Pleschenitsy. Speed control will be carried out in both directions.

Employees of the special traffic police unit "Strela" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will work in the most accident-prone areas of the Gomel region: Mozyrsky, Kalinkovichsky, Zhytkavichsky, Petrikovsky districts, etc.

According to the traffic police, since the beginning of the year, 628 traffic accidents have occurred on republican roads. More than 25,000 people have been caught driving while intoxicated. In six months, 73 people died on Belarusian roads due to drunk drivers, and 341 received injuries and disabilities.

In this regard, the traffic police remind that from August 12, a resolution of the Council of Ministers will come into force, according to which the permissible level of alcohol content in the blood will be reduced from 0.5 to 0.3 per mille.

Currently, for driving a vehicle while intoxicated, a driver is held liable with a fine of 15 to 35 basic units (one basic unit is currently Br35 thousand) and deprivation of the right to drive vehicles for a period of 3 years. If a drunk driver also does not have a driver's license, they are fined from 25 to 45 basic units. For repeated drunk driving within a year, the driver is brought to criminal responsibility.-0-