As lawmakers await a verdict on the controversial Dräger breathalyser test, expected next month, the Western Cape government  is still cracking down on drunk driving. Hard. No less than 65 drunk driving arrests were made over the weekend in Cape Town alone.

Provincial Transport MEC Robin Carlisle says the department is “desperate” to have access to the Dräger breathalyser again as part of their arsenal in the crackdown against drunk driving, because it would speed up the process of conviction for driving over the limit.

“When we were able to operate Dräger and get convictions on Dräger, it happened very fast. You were picked up at a roadblock, you were taken to a police station and your case came up fast,” he said.

He said currently, without a breathalyser test coming into play at road blocks, “People feel much more confident that they may get away with it. I want to give them this assurance that as we wait for the result, we will be hitting very hard.”

Be careful, and be safe kids.

[Source: EWN]