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Latvia Is Shipping Cars Seized From Drunk Drivers To Ukraine

The Latvian government last month approved a plan to donate cars
seized from drunk drivers to Ukraine, in what it says is a creative
scheme (or else we could say publicity-seeking scheme) to help the war
effort there.

The first collection of cars have been shipped, as last week BBC
confirmed that "Eight seized vehicles left a car pound in the capital,
Riga, on Wednesday and are due to cross the border soon."
Image via Metro.co.uk

The cars will reportedly go to the Ukrainian military as well as
hospitals. Vehicles in Latvia had previously been impounded at high
rates due to the country having among the worst drunk driving problems
in Europe, based on the size of the population.

It was only last year that lawmakers attempted a severe crackdown on
the problem, changing the law to create the possibility of vehicle
seizures in instances where a driver is found to have three times the
legal limit of alcohol in their system.

    "No-one expected that people are drunk-driving so many vehicles,"
the NGO's founder [Twitter Convoy], Reinis Poznaks, told Reuters news
agency. "They can't sell them as fast as people are drinking. So
that's why I came with the idea - send them to Ukraine."

Since the confiscation law went into effect, some two hundred cars
have been taken from drunk drivers. Many if not all of these will now
go to Ukraine.

Latvian Finance Minister Arvils Aseradens said of the program to ship
them to Ukraine, "We are ready to do practically anything to support
Ukrainians."

    Cars confiscated from drunk drivers in Latvia are ending up in
Ukraine as government donations to hospitals and troops.
pic.twitter.com/g8UmPClfLg
    — DW News (@dwnews) March 10, 2023

Last week, a group of police officers closed down an entire road in
Riga in order to do mass drinking and driving checks, but the dragnet
reportedly came up with nothing after traffic was stopped for at least
half an hour.

Likely such inconveniences to motorists will only increase, given the
recent media attention and gimmicky linkage to the Ukraine situation.
Some officials and pundits are actually calling for the program to be
implemented more broadly in Europe.