STATEMENT

A total of four hundred and forty-seven road bookings was made from the 31st Dec till 6-am today.

Fifty-five were recorded in the Southern Division, two hundred and twenty-two in the West, One Hundred and Twenty Nine in the East while forty-one was recorded in the North.

Speeding is still an issue as two hundred and sixty-one cases were recorded while six were booked for Careless driving and seven drivers were sighted driving without a seat belt.

Fourteen drivers were caught using mobile phone while driving and a hundred and fifty-one for other offenses like disobey road markings, etc.

Twenty-two drivers were booked for drunk driving including eight in the Western and Eastern divisions respectively with six cases recorded in the Southern Division while the nil case was recorded in the Northern Division.

Fiji Police Force Acting Director of Traffic, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mitieli Divuana is advising drivers to drive carefully and follow road rules as many tend to forget about their safety around this time of the year.

He adds officers will continue with their traffic operations as there will be a large movement of vehicles on our roads.