34 arrested for drink-driving in Mid Ulster area

Thirty-four motorists were arrested in the Mid Ulster district for drink/drug drive offences during the Christmas campaign which ran from December 1, 2021, to January 1.
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Jan 2022, 16:23 BST
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Across Northern Ireland there were 300 arrests for the same offence during the holiday period.

Initial figures released by the PSNI show that 6,699 preliminary breath tests (PBTs) were conducted across Northern Ireland.

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This resulted in 295 arrests for drink/drug driving related offences, representing an increase of 5.4% compared with the same period last year (280).

Head of Road Policing Chief Inspector Graham Dodds said: “At the start of the campaign we told the public that we would be out across the road network focusing on those drivers who take the selfish risk of drink or drug driving.

“Almost 300 people did not heed that warning and now find themselves going into 2022 facing the consequences of their actions.”

He explained that the highest reading detected during the campaign was 124 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millimetres of breath - the legal limit being 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. “Yet again our enforcement action detected a young person, aged 16, who shouldn’t have been driving on the road, let alone driving under the influence,” he added.