{"id":1336,"date":"2026-04-18T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T12:27:00","slug":"storm-of-traffic-offences-in-thessaloniki-over-800-in-one-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Storm of traffic offences in Thessaloniki &#8211; Over 800 in one night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeping inspections were carried out by the <strong>Traffic Police Thessaloniki<\/strong> from Friday night (17\/04) to Saturday morning (18\/04), with the authorities confirming a total of <strong>811 violations of the KOK<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there were <strong>four arrests<\/strong> of drivers found to be driving under the influence of alcohol. <\/p>\n<p>Of the total number of offences, <strong>287 involved speeding<\/strong>, while <strong>259 were related to illegal parking<\/strong>. Furthermore, <strong>61 truck violations<\/strong>, <strong>13 for noise emission<\/strong> and <strong>10 cases of drunkenness<\/strong> were recorded. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Drivers arrested:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> <strong><\/strong>Three people were arrested by the <strong>Traffic Accident Control and Prevention Team<\/strong> in the area of <strong>Eyosmos<\/strong>, while another arrest was made by officers of the <strong>Oraiokastro Police Department<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The arrested men were driving <strong>personal vehicles under the influence of alcohol<\/strong> and are expected to be taken to the <strong>prosecutor of Thessaloniki Petty Magistrate<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p> <strong><\/strong>These checks were carried out at key points in the city, with the aim of tackling <strong>dangerous driving<\/strong>. The data shows high levels of offences, particularly speeding and parking, but also the presence of drink-driving. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Sweeping were the controls of the Traffic Police of Thessaloniki on Friday night (17\/04) to the dawn of Saturday (18\/04), with the authorities &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","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\/1336","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=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}