NEW PENALTIES: The government has launched a crackdown on DUI and the Taipei Police Department is participating with 400 officers at 99 checkpoints
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 02, 2019
By: Yao Yueh-hung, Tsai Szu-pei and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer and CNA
Taipei police yesterday fined a person traveling in a vehicle driven by an alleged drunk driver, a first
Officers from the Neihsin Police Station stop vehicles at a checkpoint in Taichung yesterday.
Photo: Hsu Kuo-chen, Taipei Times
The amendments to the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act (道路交通管理處罰條例), which were passed in March, stipulate fines of up to NT$90,000 for first-time DUI offenders and for passengers who travel in vehicles driven by people under the influence.
The fine was issued at a checkpoint in Neihu District (內湖) at 1:26pm, the National Police Agency said, adding that the driver had a blood alcohol level of 0.26 milligrams per liter (mg/L).
A scooter driver in Songshang District (松山) was handed over to the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office for public endangerment, after allegedly trying to evade police and having a blood alcohol level 0.42mg/L, the agency said. [FULL STORY]