India’s daily drink-driving death toll of 19 could be reduced if police checking is made unpredictable to drivers who currently know where to expect checks, a new collaborative study between American researchers and the Rajasthan police has found.
The findings are particularly relevant in the backdrop of an April 2017 Supreme Court judgement that prohibited the sale of liquor on national highways. The move was criticised as judicial overreach.
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