The result of the breath test in 19 of them was in one per mille, four inflated more than one per mille. Alcohol also signed the emergence of four traffic accidents. TASR informed the spokeswoman of the Regional Directorate of the Police Force in Košice Lenka Ivanová.
The recorder of the last weekend is a 41-year-old driver who drove a passenger motor vehicle in the village of Baška in the Košice-okolie district on Sunday (16 March). He walked out of the road while crossing the intersection and broke the fencing of the family house with the right side. It damaged the mechanism of the electric gate and the gate itself, and hit the wall of the garage, which he damaged together with its interior and in it parked vehicles.
“Immediately after the traffic accident, the driver was subjected to a breath test. Its result was positive, namely 1.62 mg/l of alcohol in breath, which is 3.37 per mille,“The spokeswoman said that the driver ended up in a police detention cell and is accused of an offense under the influence of an addictive substance.
The police also accused three drivers who had a ban on driving motor vehicles of all kinds of obstructing the execution of the official decision. In Čečehov in the district of Michalovce, a 50-year-old driver ignored the ban by October 2025. The 47-year-old driver was banned from May 2026 in the Sobrance district.
The driver heading from Podhoro to Beňatina in the Sobrance district was banned by December 2027. “The driver did not give the police any documents and introduced himself with another name. But when he found out that the cops could verify it, he came out with the truth and said his real name,” Ivanova added.
Three drivers ended up in a police detention cell and charges of an offense under the influence of an addictive substance. It was a 36-year-old driver in Košice, who inflated 1.46 per mille on Saturday (15. 3.). On Sunday (March 16) in Michalovce, a 41-year-old driver repeatedly rejected the breath test and in Košice a 48-year-old driver, whose breath test, which was subjected to him, showed the presence of alcohol in the conversion of 1.60 per mille.