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Thread Author: henry k Replies: 5
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New Sun 12 Dec 10 09:26 
 Germany 34.5K. UK 0.168K - henry k
Figures seen by the transport select committee show just 168 drug-drivers were prosecuted in Britain in a year.
By contrast with the UK, in Germany 34,500 people were prosecuted for drug-driving during a similar period.

Drug-drivers 'stand little chance of being caught out'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11970155

"....insufficient research has been done, but it is generally believed that drugs impair driving skills."

Any more excuses?
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New Sun 12 Dec 10 11:49 
 Germany 34.5K. UK 0.168K - Chris S
Things might get better - some of my colleagues are in their early 20's and they're really against drugs.

Presumably they've seen the effect they've had on their parent's generation (ie mine).
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New Sun 12 Dec 10 13:34 
 Germany 34.5K. UK 0.168K - Zero
On a serious note, ( I know I know - from me?)

What ever happened to the field drug testing kits that we have been repeatedly told woulkd be issued to the Old Bill, to be used just like the breathalyser on traffic stops?
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New Mon 13 Dec 10 13:01 
 Germany 34.5K. UK 0.168K - FotheringtonTomas
If they have not got them, why not use the old pre-breathalyser technique? At least it would get some results, rather than none.
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New Mon 13 Dec 10 13:07 
 Germany 34.5K. UK 0.168K - madf
Of course, the UK is not serious about drug taking. If they were, Kate Moss would have gone to jail.

Too many politicians and friends of politicians and bankers take drugs for the law to be applied...
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New Mon 13 Dec 10 14:42 
 Germany 34.5K. UK 0.168K - Mapmaker
So how big a problem is drug-driving?

Isn't Germany a much hippier place than the UK, hence explaining the higher conviction rates?
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