The Joint Operations Roads Policing Unit of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary and Thames Valley Police have been increasing operational focus on those driving while impaired as part of a national campaign run by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC).
Alcohol and drugs vastly reduce your abilities behind the wheel, particularly the ability to react to ituations, and increases the danger of being killed or seriously injured in a road traffic collision.
Between 21st August and 27th August, officers recorded 30 offences of drink driving and 22 offences of drug driving on Hampshire and Isle of Wight roads. In Thames Valley, those numbers were 41 for drink driving and 46 for drug driving.
Chief Inspector Emma Hart, of the Joint Operations Roads Policing Unit, said:
“Driving while impaired from drugs or alcohol is one of the most dangerous things a person can do.
“Even the slightest amount of alcohol or drugs in your system can greatly affect your ability to drive. Lives are lost or forever changed in fatal and serious injury collisions every year as a result of motorists ignoring this simple fact.
“We will continue to relentlessly pursue the selfish minority who risk their own lives, and the lives of other innocent road users, by drink or drug driving.”
I do wish they would separate the figures for Hampshire FROM the Isle of Wight figures.
Yet again how many times……….what about the cars in Yelfs hotel carpark in ryde two cars with no mot or tax since 2021 ???? Any inforcement going to happen as it’s illegal as sorn is meant to be on the vehicles?
It is a private car park, so they are perfectly OK, because they are not on a public highway !!!!!
Well the fact that the vehicles have been on the highway would say it’s illegal, yes there on private property but with no mot or tax and not being sorn is slighty concerning
No LAW and ORDER on Island Roads
This is discrimination, just because you caught someone doesn’t mean they are bad. Go catch the young ones
100% agree with you. They are feral youngsters who see others getting away with causing untold damage on the internet and think it is funny. One way to nip it in the bud is to haul the parents in and fine them for not controlling their child.
No it is not. “focus on those driving while impaired”. Driving a car when you are not fit to do so makes you one of the bad ones.
Drink driving and drug driving is bad, should get a driving ban forever if caught.
But I always have said that if you remove alcohol from society then things will improve.
Just imagine no deaths by drink driving, or drunken damage in towns, no injuries due to drunken fights et al.
Taxpayers money saved.
Certain drugs are a different matter.
People of all classes use certain drugs for medical purposes.
These people can be sensible and use them for pain and not take the risk of going out to drive.
It is the recreational users that need to be stopped from using drugs, leave the genuine people alone that self medicate.
Just say no.!
I agree. Prohibition in the States was an incredible success
And how many people were murdered by the bootleggers and racketeers during that period? A lot of people think that Elliot Ness was a TV fictional person, but having read one book about him called The Untouchables and also his biography, I think you will find that prohibition was a failure and was soon repealed, partly due to the depression and the loss of tax revenue to the government.
Most ‘recreational drug’ users are addicted to them hence the increase in drug driving. Used to be ‘Go to work on an egg’ Now it’s ‘drive to work with a spliff’,
What about speeding on the Island, speeding is rife.
What abut our bad building work that’s terrible
There was a time it was all the time the check for drugged and drunk drivers. Should not be left to ‘special’ events to catch them. Same for all these bikes and cars with illegal exhausts. I’m a biker and work to ensure my bike is safe and legal. These yobs on illegal bikes and in illegal cars are spitting in my face and the face of all people who ensure they drive and ride safely.
Unless they start printing figures for Hampshire and Isle of Wight separately this means nothing to Islanders, I am sure none were caught on the ferries and whether the Councils and government like it or not we will always be Isle of Wight – something to do with the most expensive stretch of water in the world dividing us.