Suspended driving licenses of over 6,000 people restored
Due to a recent serious traffic accident, the issue of drivers’ responsibility has been raised. In this regard, the Traffic Police Department released important data related to traffic accidents, drivers and driving courses on Monday.
In the last two years, 96,217 people newly got their driving licenses in Mongolia. Specifically, in 2021, 43,963 people got their licenses while in the first nine months of 2022, 52,254 people received new driving licenses. Driving licenses of 32,155 people were suspended in 2021 and licenses of another 39,612 people in the first nine months of 2022.
In 2021, the Amnesty Law was passed, restoring the suspended licenses of 60,183 drivers. However, in the first nine months of this year, suspended licenses of 6,149 people were restored.
Nationwide, 200 to 300 people take the theoretical or traffic rules test and 40 to 50 percent pass it, while 150 to 200 people take the driving skill examination and 70 to 80 percent pass it. On the other hand, 150 to 250 people take the road test where they actually participate in traffic movement every day and 50 to 60 percent of them get a perfect score.
About 400 driving schools are operating nationwide. About 154 of them are in Ulaanbaatar with a total of 71 branches, while 175 institutions operate outside the city. This year, 59 new driving course providers were established, while the operating permits of 49 organizations were revoked.
A total of 26,626 drunk driving cases were registered in 2020, 49,428 in 2021 and 42,760 in the first nine months of 2022. Of these, 19.5 percent of the violations detected in the first nine months of 2022 were committed by people who had never completed a driving course. About 430 people were killed in road accidents in 2020, 383 in 2021 and 426 in the first nine months of 2022. In 2020, 45 of the people killed in traffic accidents were children. But in 2021, 51 children were killed while in the first nine months of 2022, 57 children were killed in traffic accidents.