Success follows police drink-drive campaign extension

SUSSEX drivers who risked combining drinking with driving and extended the practice beyond the holiday period and into 2008 have come a cropper.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Jan 2008, 16:28 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:21 BST

Sussex Police said this week that the force has continued its high-profile drink-drive checks well into the new year.

"The results support our intelligence assessment of there being a post Christmas hangover - where drivers continue to risk drinking and driving.

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"We will have similar high-profile periods of activity throughout the year, which will coincide with the rises in drink related collisions we identify through analysis.

"This is a priority for Sussex and, by active enforcement of the available legislation, we intend to reduce the numbers of those killed or injured on our roads."

The continuation of the Christmas drink drive campaign resulting in:

*More than 700 drivers being breathalysed by Road Policing Unit officers

*120 resulting in positive results - 17%

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* 200 breath tests undertaken following injury road traffic crashes

*11 positive tests from these checks - 5.5%

Sussex Police say the breakdown shows that the percentage difference between after-accident testing to before-accident is 9% compared with 91%.

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