Priests asked to shame drunk drivers
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-09-05 17:23 Prosecutors in overwhelmingly
Catholic Poland have asked priests to read out the names of drunk-drivers from
the pulpit as part of efforts to reduce the country's high road death rate.
Church leaders have not said yet whether they will support the scheme, aimed
to shame drivers into sobriety.
"We post the names of convicted drunk drivers at town halls," said Rafal
Grabia, a prosecutor in the mountain town of Zywiec in southern Poland. "But who
reads that? The information is not reaching family, friends and neighbors."
More than 98,000 have died on Polish roads since 1991, making Poles 2.5 times
more likely to die in road accidents than Swedes or U.K. citizens,European Union
figures show.
Drunk driving cases rose 75 percent between 2001 and 2005 in ex-communist
Poland to 80,000, according to the justice ministry.
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