By Angela Rees
The Christmas anti-drink-drive message appears to have got through to motorists as fewer men and women failed a breath test than the year prior to.
In spite of police testing far more drivers in England and Wales in December than the identical period in 2011, the failure or refusal price fell from 7,124 out of 156,569 tested (4.55 per cent) to 7,123 out of 175,831, down to 4.05 per cent.
The figures integrated a fall among young drivers aged 20-24, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) stated. More than 1,000 much more drivers in the age category had been breath-tested in December 2012 compared with 2011, but with 104 fewer young drivers failing tests.
Nonetheless, the 2012 figures general were nevertheless larger than in December 2010 when 6,662 (3.91 per cent) failed or refused out of a total of 170,552.
ACPO’;s roads policing head, deputy chief constable Suzette Davenport, said: “It’;s great to see that yet again the majority of drivers are responsible and sensible. Our outcomes show that by far the majority of drivers stopped did not drink or take drugs and drive. We made it totally clear to drivers ahead of Christmas that we would be stepping up our efforts to breathalyse them. It is encouraging to see the message has got via to even a lot more drivers than last year.”
In spite of the good results of the Christmas campaign, she pledged that police would continue to concentrate on the “small but important” number who think they can threat their own lives, and the lives of other individuals, by driving beneath the influence.
AA president Edmund King said numerous campaigns appeared to have had a constructive effect more than Christmas but issued a note of caution, saying the number of young drivers failing breath tests was still also high and police tactics varied considerably up and down the country.
“Even although there was a reduction in the quantity of under-25s testing optimistic, the proportion of optimistic tests (5.27 per cent) was greater than for the more than-25s (3.39 per cent),” he stated. “The North Wales force, which represents a population of 675,000 men and women, tested a lot more than 18,000 drivers. In comparison, the South Wales force, which represents 1.2 million individuals, only tested 3,703.”
Road safety minister Stephen Hammond warned motorists that they ought to be in no doubt that if they get behind the wheel following drinking they threat losing their licence, as well as facing a fine and even a prison sentence.
He mentioned the Government is preparing to streamline enforcement and tighten the law so drink-drivers will have “nowhere to hide”, and that the figures show the police are “cracking down on the irresponsible minority who continue to ignore the law”.
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