A total of 313 drink-driving cases were sent to court and nine of the offenders were ordered to wear electronic tags on Thursday, the first day of the New Year holiday.
Prasarn Mahaleetrakul, director-general of the Probation Department, said on Friday that in total 514 cases were sent to court on charges including drink-driving, reckless driving and speeding on Thursday, the start of the seven dangerous days road safety campaign.
Of these, 313 involved drink-driving, accounting 60% of the cases, 22 reckless driving (4.28%), one speeding (0.1%), and 178 driving under the influence of drugs (34.6%).
The Probation Department chief said the courts ordered nine drink-driving offenders to wear electronic monitoring devices. They were ordered not to leave their homes between 10pm and 4am for 15 days, report to probation officials and do community service for 24 hours. Their driving licences were suspended for six months.
Bangkok had the most drink-driving cases with 60, followed by Maha Sarakham (40) and Ubon Ratchathani (33).
