Across China: Guangxi

Drunk driving survey

About 6.8 out of 100 drivers in cities of the Chinese mainland drove drunk at least once, a survey by the Chinese Drunk-Driving Intervention Project released yesterday showed. The data also showed only 0.3 percent of the drunk drivers were punished, while 78 percent of the drivers never took an alcohol-level test in the past two years. It also showed that 34.5 percent of major traffic accidents are related to drunk driving. The project, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Health, the Global Road Safety Partnership and the World Health Organization, used a random sample of 10,685 drivers in Nanning and Liuzhou, both in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.