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Monday, 17 October 2011

Drunk driving crackdown nets almost 20 000

Johannesburg - Almost 20 000 drunk drivers have been arrested in South Africa in the past 11 months, the transport ministry said on Monday.

"From October 2010 to September, 19 780 drunk drivers have been arrested," said spokesperson Logan Maistry.

Six hundred of those drivers were sentenced in the Western Cape alone.

"Forty-seven were sentenced to prison without the option of paying fines or serving another type of sentence," Maistry said.

One was jailed for four years, six for three years and the remaining 40 for between six months and two-and-a-half years.  Read More

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