howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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courtey of the independent.
The percentage of motorists caught drink-driving on UK roads rose this year, new police figures have revealed.
Officers stopped and breath tested 88,629 drivers during crackdown in England, Wales and Northern Ireland throughout June, the Association of Chief Police officers (Acpo) said.
Of those, 5,373 (6.06%) tested positive, refused or failed a breath test, compared to 5.6% during the same period last year.
The figures revealed that 7.40% of drivers under the age of 25 were breaking the drink-drive law when they were pulled over, while 5.67% of motorists over 25 were offenders.
Chief Constable Phil Gormley, Acpo's lead officer on roads policing, said: "It is worrying that younger drivers continue to drink and drive and we will be redoubling our efforts to address this unacceptable behaviour."
During the month long targeted drink and drug driving campaign, police also ramped up testing for drivers under the influence of drugs, conducting 30% more field impairment tests than in 2010.
The crackdown resulted in 122 out of 337 motorists (36.20%) being arrested.
Chief Constable Gormley added: "We have increased the number of tests we conducted to detect people driving under the influence of drugs and this is an area where we are working with Government to improve our capabilities through reformed legislation and procedures.
"We view this as an important area for casualty reduction and will continue to pursue motorists who drive whilst under the influence of drugs, endangering their fellow road users."
Automobile Association president Edmund King said: "We are surprised and disappointed that there has been an increase in the proportion of positive breath tests.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Statisticsm statistics, statistic...... 57% of them are made up on the spot..
It could be that there are more drink drivers, OR alternatively they are better at spotting the ones that have been drinking OR the are only stopping the ones that have obviously been drinking
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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all possibly true, what surprised me was that i thought those days were over and only a handfull transgressed.
the indications are that the problem is on the increase.
Keith Sansum1
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yes howard
and that cant be good
no one should drink and drive
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Jan Higgins
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Rural public transport is negligible so some are bound to take a chance, not that I condone just understand.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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no need to take chances
and shouldn
no excuses im afraid
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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yes it is hard to drink and drive,there is a danger of spilling your drink.
.but on the serious side it is danderous to do so.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I don't think there is any excuse for drink driving
and the en result could be one of regret that some have found
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