{"id":21530,"date":"2026-09-14T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/drunk-driving-rate-falls-as-alcohol-checks-in-athens-surge-850\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T01:48:08","slug":"drunk-driving-rate-falls-as-alcohol-checks-in-athens-surge-850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/drunk-driving-rate-falls-as-alcohol-checks-in-athens-surge-850\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk-driving rate falls as alcohol checks in Athens surge 850%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>A sharp increase in roadside alcohol checks in Athens appears to be deterring drunk driving, with the share of drivers testing over the legal limit falling to 0.8% in the first eight months of 2026 from 6.8% in the same period last year, according to police data.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/in-depth\/society-in-depth\/1315124\/drunk-driving-rate-falls-as-alcohol-checks-in-athens-surge-850\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sharp increase in roadside alcohol checks in Athens appears to be deterring drunk driving, with the share of drivers testing over the legal limit falling to 0.8% in the first eight months of 2026 from 6.8% in the same period last year, according to police data. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}