Did you know that drugs can stay in your system for up to 28 days?
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We are continuing to share our new road safety campaign messages to warn people of the consequences of drink and drug driving in the county during the festive period.
Alcohol and drugs affect people in different ways; there is no magic formula to calculate how long it takes for these to leave your system. Drugs can stay in your system for up to 28 days!
We launched the Roads Policing Unit earlier this year which means that there will be more officers than ever before patrolling the county’s roads.
We will be implementing extra enforcement activity on the county’s roads throughout December. Officers will be carrying out extra patrols throughout the day and night, and checkpoints will be set up in select locations with officers conducting drink and drug tests.
Did you know that drugs can stay in your system for up to 28 days?
You might have gotten high the other day and think that you’re fine, but drugs can still affect the way we do simple everyday tasks, like driving.
During the Christmas period there’ll be more police patrols on Lincolnshire roads. If we catch you and we do a DrugWipe and you test positive, you will be arrested.
You will then have to face the consequences which could be a night in the cells, a driving ban, and a criminal record.
Is the high really worth the low?
Don’t drug drive.
Inspector Jason Baxter said:
"We hear a lot of people saying that police are just out there trying to arrest drink drivers and we should be catching ‘real criminals’. Our main priority continues to be making our county, and our roads, safer. Over the last year three people died and 39 people were seriously injured in Lincolnshire, with drink and/or drugs listed as a contributing factor. Our job is to try to reduce this number, and if this campaign makes people think twice about getting out there and drink or drug driving that’s the whole point.”
With the usual Christmas parties, the World Cup matches taking place during the build up to Christmas, and New Year, we are expecting people to be socialising more and more.
Inspector Jason Baxter said:
“We know that people will want to get out and celebrate. We don’t want to stop you having fun, but please do so safely. Consider making other arrangements to get home, the cost of a taxi or the inconvenience of having to pick up your vehicle the next day is a much better alternative to facing the penalties of being arrested.”
If you want to support our campaign, please download the graphics below and share on your own social media channels with your friends, family, and colleagues. Help us to keep our county safe.
If you have concerns about anybody who is driving under the influence, please call us on 101 (or 999 if they are posing an imminent danger).
Or you can call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.