Lahore police seize car whose driver committed 74 traffic violations

LAHORE: The Lahore traffic police on Wednesday seized the documents of a car whose driver was involved in traffic violations up to 74 times, ARY News reported.

According to Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Muntazir Mehdi, a fine of Rs 36,000 was also slapped on the owner of a car involved in traffic offences up to 74. times.

The driver had broken traffic signals 43 times and was caught overspeeding 28 times. He also violated one-way traffic rules three times, the statement said.

He further said that since the start of the Lahore traffic police’s campaign, the documents of more than 20,000 cars — whose owners had not paid the fines — had been seized.

In a similar police activity against traffic violations, the City Traffic Police Lahore (CTPL) on June.9 seized the vehicle and fined the owner who was involved in traffic violations up to 90 times.

According to the police, the car driver had violated the traffic light 41 times and was charged with over-speeding up to 45 times. Besides this, the driver had violated the traffic regulations against one-way traffic once, as well as line lane and zebra crossing thrice.