One motorist per hour arrested for drink or drug driving during bank holiday weekend

Gardaí also seized a total 613 vehicles for a range of road traffic offences under Section 41 of the Roads Traffic Act

Tests led to the arrests of 196 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

An average of one motorist per hour was arrested for intoxicated driving during a Garda roads policing operation over the May bank holiday weekend.

Between 7am on Thursday, May 2 and 7am on Tuesday, May 7 gardaí established 1,090 Mandatory Intoxicant Testing (MIT) checkpoints nationwide and carried out 5,349 roadside drug and alcohol tests.