{"id":10651,"date":"2026-06-14T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:07:00","slug":"crete-a-flurry-of-traffic-tickets-656-violations-in-a-single-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10651","title":{"rendered":"Crete: A &#8220;flurry&#8221; of traffic tickets\u2014656 violations in a single day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     Coordinated police operations were carried out yesterday, Saturday (6\/13), throughout the Region Crete, as part of efforts to prevent traffic accidents and to address dangerous driving behaviors. <\/p>\n<p>     During the checks, police officers inspected <strong>1,783 vehicles<\/strong> and <strong>2,075 citizens<\/strong>, while a total of <strong>656 violations<\/strong> of the Highway Code were confirmed. At the same time, <strong>86 vehicles<\/strong> were impounded. <\/p>\n<p>     In separate checks, the authorities also recorded <strong>9 violations<\/strong>, while proceeding with <strong>16 arrests<\/strong>. The cases involved, as applicable, violations of laws regarding drugs, weapons, livestock theft, street vending, disturbance of the peace, and lack of health certificates in food establishments. <\/p>\n<h2>     The main violations identified by the Traffic Police <\/h2>\n<p>     Of the total traffic violations, most involved dangerous driving behaviors and failure to follow basic safety measures. <\/p>\n<p>     Specifically, the following were confirmed: <\/p>\n<ul data-spread=\"false\">\n<li><strong>24 violations<\/strong> for failure to wear a seat belt<\/li>\n<li><strong>37 violations<\/strong> for driving under the influence of alcohol<\/li>\n<li><strong>44 violations<\/strong> for failure to wear a helmet<\/li>\n<li><strong>38 violations<\/strong> for speeding<\/li>\n<li><strong>11 violations<\/strong> involving drivers of Light Electric Personal Vehicles<\/li>\n<li><strong>7 violations<\/strong> for failure to yield the right of way<\/li>\n<li><strong>32 violations<\/strong> for improper maneuvers<\/li>\n<li><strong>2 violations<\/strong> for using a cell phone while driving<\/li>\n<li><strong>25 violations<\/strong> for driving without a valid license<\/li>\n<li><strong>8 violations<\/strong> for improper passing<\/li>\n<li><strong>7 violations<\/strong> for running a red light<\/li>\n<li><strong>421 other violations<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Coordinated police operations were carried out yesterday, Saturday (June 13), throughout the Region of Crete, as part of efforts to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}