Drugs and alcohol don’t go with driving. You’ll end up being involved in serious accidents and having to deal with, bereaved families and people carrying injuries for life. There are also a lot of other disastrous effects-going to court, losing your driving licence, higher insurance, and social stigma if you hurt someone else while driving. […]

When you receive penalty points on your driving licence, they will stay there for four years after you are convicted. This is the case for most offences however, death by dangerous driving while under the influence of drink or drugs and death by dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen for analysis will result […]

DRINK and drug drivers in Dorset are to be targeted by Police in a Christmas campaign. During the Christmas campaign there will be increased traffic patrols, as well as road-side checks, and every driver who is involved in a collision during the period will be breath tested – irrespective of whether they are suspected of […]

A campaign aimed at raising awareness about the dangers of texting and driving has begun in Slough. As part of the initiative, a billboard featuring a mobile phone with the text, “Hi darling, just about to run someone over”, has been put up in Ledgers Road. Police caught 32 drivers using mobiles phones during a […]

Dangerous or careless driving no matter whether the driver believes they are acting this way or not can have serious consequences and often involves fatalities. Dangerous driving is where an individual falls FAR below the standard of a competent driver and can include: Racing or travelling too fast, driving under the influence of alcohol or […]

Police in Avon and Somerset have arrested 95 people for drink driving offences three weeks into a campaign to save lives on the roads. Operation Tonic was launched on June 1, and has seen officers carry out high-visibility stop-checks to raise awareness of the dangers of drink-driving and target repeat offenders. In the last three […]

THE legal alcohol limit for drivers could be reduced by more than a third if the Government agrees with the recommendations of a new report. Reducing it from 80mg per 100ml of blood to 50mg would save hundreds of lives per year, a Whitehall-commissioned report by leading academic and legal expert Sir Peter North said. […]

“Underage drinking is our nation’s No. 1 youth drug problem, killing 6.5 times more youth than all illicit drugs combined,” reads a National Academy of Sciences report from 2003. The report was apparently praised by members of Congress and advocacy groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) for bringing underage drinking and driving to […]

The Scottish Conservatives are calling for police to be issued with devices which can test whether motorists are under the influence of drugs. Justice spokesman Bill Aitken said that ‘drugalysers’ were already in use in Australia and on Thursday, he urged the UK Government to ensure similar equipment be made available here. The move would […]

More than 1,500 motorists were stopped and breathalysed in Nottinghamshire as part of a month-long drink-driving crackdown. Of the 1,507 checked, 139 people tested positive, or refused or failed to provide a sample to see if they were over the legal alcohol limit. The scheme, part of the national summer campaign throughout June, saw drivers […]