Hyderabad stares at drunk-driving dangers

​Hyderabad: There seems to be a spurt in drunk driving accident cases in the city. Over the past few weeks, the city witnessed three such incidents, in which death of innocent people has resulted.  In the latest case, Kushaiguda accident, which resulted in the death of a cobbler, all the four girls travelling in the car were allegedly drunk. 

Although, the police denied that the driver was not under the influence of alcohol, the locals alleged that the driver was in an inebriated state. The girls were reportedly returning from a pub after partying till late night.

In March, N Naveen Kumar, a techie, in a highly drunken state rammed into an auto resulting in the death of the auto driver. The incident has happened in the late night when the auto driver was returning home. When the police conducted an alcohol test, they found 12.6 per cent alcohol in the accused’s blood. 

The incident happened on a day when the police ordered closure of wine shops on the occasion of Holi. In another incident, Vishnu Vardhan, a drunk man rammed his car into three women riding on a scooter at Road No 10, Banjara Hills. One person, who was riding the bike, has been killed instantly, and the other two sustained severe injuries. The alcohol levels were found to be 20mg/DL in the blood samples of the accused.

However, the traffic police said that they were regularly conducting breath analyser tests across the city. “We are cracking the whip on drunk drivers by sending them to jail. The drunk driving tests are widely being conducted at many locations,” said a traffic official, adding that their vigil would be intensified during weekends.