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Lucy Harvey
"INEFFECTIVE legislation which has allowed drug drivers to escape justice will be changed after a campaign by a Yorkshire Chief Constable. Existing procedures mean officers have to first determine whether someone has taken drugs and then prove the effect of those drugs has impaired their driving. That involves a range of time-consuming physical tests at the roadside, including walking a straight line, but such vague checks are known to be flawed and can be beaten by many habitual drug abusers. Consequently cases are difficult to prove and very few offenders are taken to court. It is now anticipated the law will be simplified to make driving while unfit through drugs an offence in its own right." [Police News]
