Andrew Bagala
28 June 2011
Kampala â€" Traffic Police yesterday arrested a Principal State Attorney in the Registrar of Companies' office and impounded his car on allegations of drink-driving. The attorney was arrested after an incident in which he allegedly lost control of his car and rammed into a roundabout on Shimoni Road Subway at around 8am.
Metropolitan Police spokesman Ibin Ssenkumbi said the accident prompted them to do a test to establish whether he was driving under the influence of alcohol. "When we tested him with a breathalyser, we found out that he had consumed alcohol five times the recommended limit for motorists," Mr Ssenkumbi said.
The alcohol consumption limit for drivers is 35ml/100ml of breath but the principal state attorney allegedly measured 159ml of alcohol/100ml of breath. "So we charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol," he said. The principal state attorney told Daily Monitor that he was trying to avoid a motorist who was about to knock his car.
Similar incidents
Last week, a suspected drunk Kyambogo University lecturer lost control of his car and knocked dead a police officer on Jinja Road. He was also arrested and detained at Jinja Road Police Station on allegations of driving under the influence of alcohol. The Police say the number of road accidents has increased each year, and have attributed 80 per cent of road accidents to human factors such as driving under the influence of alcohol.
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