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Smoking bus drivers were photographed by passengers with mobiles and fined for their bad habit, Nakhodka’s city administration recently reported.

Two drivers were caught smoking when driving city public buses in the Pacific port of Nakhodka in the end of April. According to the passenger transportation rules, drivers of public transportation are forbidden to smoke or talk over mobile phones when they are performing their dutuies. Police report that many road accidents are caused by motorists who pay less attention to driving when they are busy with something else.

In Nakhodka passengers photographed with their mobile telephones two bus drivers smoking during work. The city’s administrative commission ruled that the violators should pay a fine of 1,000 rubles ($50) each.