By Angela Rees
The Christmas anti-drink-drive message appears to have got through to motorists as fewer people failed a breath test than the year prior to.
In spite of police testing more drivers in England and Wales in December than the very same period in 2011, the failure or refusal rate 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 incorporated a fall amongst young drivers aged 20-24, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) mentioned. A lot 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 overall were still higher 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, stated: “It’;s excellent to see that but once more the majority of drivers are responsible and sensible. Our results show that by far the majority of drivers stopped did not drink or take drugs and drive. We produced it definitely clear to drivers prior to Christmas that we would be stepping up our efforts to breathalyse them. It is encouraging to see the message has got by way of to even far more drivers than last year.”
Despite the achievement of the Christmas campaign, she pledged that police would continue to concentrate on the “little but important” number who think they can risk their personal lives, and the lives of other people, by driving under the influence.
AA president Edmund King mentioned different campaigns appeared to have had a good effect over Christmas but issued a note of caution, saying the quantity of young drivers failing breath tests was nonetheless too higher and police tactics varied significantly up and down the nation.
“Even even though there was a reduction in the number of below-25s testing constructive, the proportion of optimistic tests (5.27 per cent) was larger than for the over-25s (3.39 per cent),” he mentioned. “The North Wales force, which represents a population of 675,000 men and women, tested much more than 18,000 drivers. In comparison, the South Wales force, which represents 1.2 million folks, only tested 3,703.”
Road safety minister Stephen Hammond warned motorists that they should be in no doubt that if they get behind the wheel soon after drinking they danger losing their licence, as properly as facing a fine and even a prison sentence.
He said the Government is organizing 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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