"I Only Had One Beer": 21 Drivers Caught in 2 Hours

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With the summer vacation season in full swing, the police have launched special late-night drunk driving crackdowns. In the southern Gyeonggi region alone, more than 20 cases were detected in just two hours.

Reporter Dong Eunyeong has the story.

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On the night of July 2, in front of Suwon City Hall in Gyeonggi Province.

A special crackdown on drunk driving for the summer vacation season began, with even drones deployed to prepare for potential incidents, such as drivers attempting to flee.

Just 20 minutes into the operation, police officers pulled a man out of his vehicle.

[Officer: Please bite down firmly and blow into the balloon as hard as you can until I tell you to stop. Keep going, keep going.]

The blood alcohol concentration shown on the testing device was at a level warranting a license suspension.

[Officer: Sir, it came out to 0.047 percent. This is a level that results in a 100-day license suspension.]

The man admitted that he had consumed beer during dinner.

[Officer: What kind of alcohol did you drink and how much? / Man: About one bottle of beer. / Officer: How far do you think you drove? Roughly. / Man: About 400 to 500 meters.]

A woman who revealed that she had finished two cans of beer two hours earlier could not avoid the crackdown either.

[Officer: How long has it been since you put down your glass? 20 minutes? / Woman: Two hours ago. I drank at 7 p.m.]

Although she rinsed her mouth with water before blowing into the testing device, the result still indicated a license suspension level.

[Officer: 0.050 percent. This is a level that results in a 100-day license suspension. If you have any objections to this result, you can request a blood test. / Woman: No, no, I don't.]

The results of the drunk driving crackdown, which took place on the night of July 2, centered around busy areas in the southern Gyeonggi region, showed a total of 21 cases detected in two hours, including 10 license revocations and 11 suspensions.

[Choi Myeong-sik / Traffic Safety Division Chief, Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency: To ensure that a happy vacation with your family does not turn into a tragedy in an instant, please do not get behind the wheel if you have had even a single drink.]

The police plan to conduct special crackdowns every Friday and Saturday evening in areas with a high frequency of drunk driving accidents until next month.

(Video Editing: Won Hyeong-hui)
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