Over last weekend, which included ‘World Day of Road Victims’ on Sunday, 149 drivers were done for drunk driving and 586 were caught speeding.
On Saturday and Sunday, the GNR detected 1,608 infractions, including excess speed, driving with a higher blood alcohol level than allowed by law, no MOT (87), lack of seat belt (49), 41 tachograph related infractions, 29 cases of driving while on the phone and 28 for lack of insurance.
Of those stopped, the GNR found wanted drug traffickers and thieves, and others wanted for domestic violence incidents.
Guns were found in some vehicles, also hashish, heroin, cocaine, cannabis and replica weapons.
On Sunday, the vice president of the National Highway Safety Authority, Fernando Moutinho, commented that 80% to 95% of road accidents are caused "by the behaviour of the driver."
