“During the May holidays, it is planned to conduct mass inspections and special operations aimed at preventing various violations of the rules of the road, aimed, inter alia, at stopping the management of motor vehicles by drivers who are intoxicated,” quotes the representative of the traffic police TASS.

At the end of February, it was reported that about 15 thousand car accidents involving drunk drivers occurred in Russia in 2019.

As a result of such accidents, more than 4 thousand people died and more than 20 thousand were injured.