Drugged drivers...

[Jim Goose]

Pretty sad indication of our society isn't it?
It would probably explain some dangerous, if not suicidal tendancies in some driver behavour on the road that you see dayin and day out....

Thousands of drugged drivers caught by police
Updated 59 minutes ago


More than 300 people have been caught driving with drugs in their system in the last six months. (ABC Graphics)
Over 2,000 people have been caught driving while under the influence of drugs, since the introduction of random drug testing in Victoria.

Victoria was the first place in the world to introduce random testing five-and-a-half years ago.

Since then, over 120,000 drivers have been tested and 2,000 people have been caught driving under the influence of drugs.

That is a rate of 1 in every 61 drivers.

Eighty-three per cent of those caught had been taking speed.

Cannabis and ecstasy were also detected.

Victoria Police have caught more than 300 people driving under the influence of drugs in the past six months alone.

Figures show 87 per cent of those caught are male and over one-third are under 26-years-old.

Police say that driving while on drugs poses the same risk as driving while drunk.

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