Over 100 Seized Drunk Driving Vehicles in One Year... Seizure Rate at 71%

Announcement of Results for Joint Police-Prosecutor Measures to Eradicate Drunk Driving
About 100 Vehicles Confiscated Over One Year

It has been reported that just over a year after the prosecution and police implemented a joint measure to eradicate drunk driving, the number of vehicles confiscated by court order has exceeded 100. This accounts for 71% of the 444 actual drunk driving vehicles.

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Previously, since July 1 of last year, the prosecution and police have been enforcing the "Drunk Driving Eradication Measure," which involves seizing vehicles of serious drunk driving offenders, such as those causing fatal accidents or habitual drunk drivers.

According to the Supreme Prosecutors' Office on the 6th, from the implementation of the joint drunk driving eradication measure last year until September 30 of this year, 444 vehicles have been confiscated, and among them, 101 drunk driving vehicles have been sentenced to confiscation after the first trial concluded.

There have been a total of 142 drunk driving cases concluded in the first trial, with a vehicle confiscation sentencing rate of 71%. Considering that 170 cases are currently ongoing in the first trial, the number of confiscations is expected to increase in the future.

Meanwhile, vehicles are subject to seizure and confiscation if the person has caused a serious injury accident due to drunk driving after previously causing a fatal drunk driving accident or having two or more drunk driving offenses within five years, or if a person with three or more drunk driving offenses within five years reoffends.