Chinese police caught 15,000 people in just the first week of a crackdown on drink-driving, organised in part to appease a public angered by a series of fatal accidents.
Drink-driving cases are concentrated in the nation's wealthy areas, with 3,075 reported in east China's Zhejiang province and 1,542 in Shanghai, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday, citing the Public Security Ministry. Despite the crackdown, there has been "no obvious drop" in the number of drink-driving cases, the ministry said.
China kicked off the two-month campaign on Aug 15, hoping to ensure safer roads before and during the Oct 1,60th anniversary of the communist state, the agency reported. It also follows public uproar after drink-driving resulted in several lethal accidents in recent months.
Earlier this month, a drink-driver in east China's Hangzhou city killed a 16-year-old girl, while in Shanghai another killed a boy aged four.
In a signal of a tougher approach,China handed down a death sentence last month to a motorist who killed four people after drinking "large quantities"of a strong Chinese spirit, the nation's first such use of capital punishment.The driver has appealed.
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