Drug driving arrests in Bolton three times higher than those caught over drink drive limit
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThree times as many people are being arrested for drug driving than drinking and driving in Bolton. The borough also has some of the highest numbers for disqualified drivers in the country and is the busiest area for driving issues in the north of the Greater Manchester region, a leading police officer has said.
Speaking at the Transport for Greater Manchester Bee Network committee, chief inspector Michael Parker told members of the increasing prevalence of drug driving.
He said: “Drug driving is a massive problem, it now exceeds drink driving, probably by a three to one basis. “Drink driving is now socially unacceptable.
It took a long period of education to get to that. But we’ve not a that period of education for drug driving yet. Join the Manchester Politics WhatsApp group here “You’ll stop people in the streets and as them if they’ve had a drink and they’ll say ‘no I don’t do anything like that – I just smoke weed’.
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