On July 23, as part of the “Sobriety” campaign, inspectors from provincial road transport inspectorates conducted intensified sobriety checks on urban and suburban bus drivers. The operations were carried out in the morning hours across the country, covering provincial capitals and larger cities within individual provinces.
Each driver checked was tested for alcohol content in their exhaled breath. A total of 2,003 drivers were checked, of whom two were driving under the influence of alcohol and two were driving after consuming alcohol. These drivers were stopped in Białystok (0.6 per mille), Zawiercie (0.58 per mille), Kraków (0.4 per mille), and Olsztyn (0.38 per mille).
A total of 173 inspectors from the Road Transport Inspectorate took part in the nationwide operation. This is another such campaign aimed at checking the sobriety of urban and suburban bus drivers; the previous large-scale operation took place on March 20 of this year. At that time, inspectors checked the sobriety of 2,169 drivers, of whom 1 driver was operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Number of checks broken down by individual provinces:
• Pomeranian (117 checks)
• Lubusz (39 checks)
• Lublin (140 checks)
• Łódź (88 checks)
• Lower Silesian (151 checks)
• Podlaskie (114 checks)
• Warmian-Masurian (197 checks)
• Kuyavian-Pomeranian (98 checks)
• Opole (43 checks)
• Greater Poland (63 checks)
• Lesser Poland (51 checks)
• Silesian (275 checks)
• West Pomeranian (107 checks)
• Świętokrzyskie (89 checks)
• Masovian (262 checks)
• Subcarpathian (169 checks)
Sobriety checks for drivers have been, are, and will continue to be conducted systematically.