During three months of the launch of the Common Traffic Monitoring and Control Centre, there were recorded over 24,000 violations of the traffic rules. There were imposed fines of about 7 million lei, IPN reports.

According to the press service of the Ministry of the Interior, the cameras set up at intersections make the traffic participants to be more disciplined. The number of accidents decreased, while the extension of the network to all the national roads, where the risk of accidents is higher, became a strategic necessity.

Contacted by IPN, deputy head of the Ministry’s Information Technology Service Dan Chirita said that 90% of the fined drivers paid the fines within 72 hours and thus the fine was halved. A sum of 3 million lei in fines has been collected until now.

If the derivers, who received notifications concerning the violations identified by the surveillance cameras at home, do not pay the fine within 30 days, measures are taken to make them pay. If the bailiffs do not have what to sequester, the competent authorities sue the drivers. The court can deprive them of the driver’s license for a period of 6 to 12 months.