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Ban drug-driving in Scotland, urges Brake
Date: 17 March 2017 | Author: Daniel Puddicombe
Road safety charity Brake is calling on the Scottish government to introduce a zero-tolerance policy for drug-driving.
The request comes as the Scottish National Party holds its annual Spring Conference this weekend in Aberdeen.
According to the most recent figures, from 2015, 62 fatal accidents occurred as a result of illicit drug use, while a survey commissioned by the charity last year found that 7% of Scottish motorists admitted to driving while under the influence of drugs.
Worryingly, half of those have 'drug-driven' on a weekly basis, the research claimed.
Brake said if Scotland did ban drug-driving, it would bring the country in line with England and Wales, with both nations introducing a zero-tolerance drug-driving ban in 2015.
Since then, 1,490 arrests were made between March 2015 and April 2016, Brake said, compared with 1,038 arrests during the same period in 2013/14.
"As the governing party gathers in Aberdeen, I want to send the first minister a clear message that her government needs to root out dangerous and potentially deadly driving by introducing a drug-driving law. There's evidence that the law is working in the other nations of the UK and will work in Scotland," said Gary Rae, campaigns director for Brake
