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Let the pandemic teach us traffic discipline, too
Updated On: 04 January, 2021 11:10 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
Some number crunching will make our points clearer. On December 31, 2019, 677 cases of drink and drive were made and licences of offenders were suspended for six months.

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It is unfortunate but true that it has taken a pandemic to inculcate discipline and teach us some lessons.
The Mumbai traffic police found 35 cases of drink and drive on December 31, while there were 4,056 cases of other traffic violations. The drink and drive cases are much lower as compared to December 31, 2019, in all probability due to the COVID-19 pandemic-related curfew, a report in this paper said.
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