Wed, 23 Mar, 2016 12:05:43 AM FTimes Report, Mar 24  File Photo Lehtikuva. Drunken driving caused by alcohol went down by 6.4 per cent, but that caused by narcotic substances increased by 19.7 per cent in 2015 from the previous year.
The combined use of alcohol and narcotic substances, however, grew by 12.4 per cent, according to Statistics Finland.
In 69.0 per cent of drunken driving cases, the intoxicant was alcohol and in 26.8 per cent some other narcotic substance. The remaining 4.2 per cent had used both, the data show.
A total of 413,200 offences were recorded in 2015 by the police, customs and border guard in the whole country, which were 4,700 offences less than one year before.
In all, 262,000 persons were suspected of the 236,500 offences solved in 2015, which were 1,300 lower than one year before. Victims of violent offences recorded numbered 37,400 persons.
Aggravated drunken driving went down by 5.9 per cent and other drunken driving increased by 5.6 per cent from 2014. In all, 17,600 drunken driving offences were recorded, which was 30 cases or 0.2 per cent more than in the previous year.
The number of drunken driving offences recorded has primarily been decreasing in the past ten years. They have fallen by over one-third from the record figures of 1990, according to the statistics.
In 2015, a total of 405,800 cases of endangerment of traffic safety, traffic infractions, violations of social welfare legislation on road traffic and motor vehicle infractions were registered, which was 1.1 per cent fewer than in 2014.
Most of them were offences found out in connection with police surveillance and guidance.
The recorded number of aggravated endangerment of traffic safety was 3,900, which was 1.5 per cent more than in 2014, the data show.
The police recorded 282,600 cases of exceeding speed limits, which was 3.8 per cent lower than in the year before.
Problems connected to the re-organisation of automatic traffic control brought about a substantial fall in the number of traffic offences recorded in the early part of 2014 compared with 2013.
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