Overview
- Buenos Aires City conducted 5,394 breath tests across more than 30 posts and recorded 30 positives (0.47%), roughly half the rate seen in 2024.
- Of the city’s positives, 11 drivers exceeded 1.0 g/l and 19 were between 0.5 and 0.99 g/l, with the highest reading reaching 1.74 g/l.
- City sanctions include immediate license retention, vehicle towing, mandatory education courses and fines that scale with blood alcohol level, with legal limits set at 0.5 g/l for private motorists and zero for novice and professional drivers.
- The national road safety agency checked 5,220 vehicles at 39 strategic points and reported at least 97 positive cases, issued 163 citations, retained 102 licenses and documented very high BACs, enforcing alcohol-zero rules on national routes.
- Separate holiday enforcement in Pontevedra, Spain, logged 254 tests with 21 denunciations, including a high drug positivity rate from selective testing that mostly identified cocaine use.