Sunscreen and 11 other things drivers should not leave in a hot car


When it’s just 22°C outside, it can reach 47°C inside a car within 60 minutes. These are the things you should leave inside.
Drug-driving arrests up 50%, continuing six-year trend

Drug-driving arrests up 50%


Drug-driving prosecutions in the UK hit a record high in 2021 after six consecutive years of rises.
Revolutionary website makes sending police dangerous driving dash cam footage a doddle

Drug boss convicted using his own car's dashcam


The leader of a Hertfordshire drug smuggling ring has been jailed after the dashcam on his car recorded the distribution of Class A substances.
Police knew of doubt over drug‑drive tests

Police knew of doubt over drug‑drive tests


Police chiefs were warned last year that a controversial forensics laboratory used a method for analysing blood samples that could be challenged
Uber drivers accused of boosting fares by selling passengers drugs

Uber drivers accused of selling drugs


Customers of Uber have reported being offered drugs by drivers as concern grows over how the service could be used to mask the distribution...
Drug driving suit test by Emma Smith for Sunday Times

High way to hell: testing the Ford drug-driving suit


Driving struggles to control a car in a suit made to raise awareness of the effects of drug driving
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Families release crash video as warning to drug drivers


The grieving families of two young men who were killed in a car crash while under the influence of drugs have sanctioned the release of a video...
Drug driving: How the law has finally caught up with doped up motorists

Drug driving: How the law has finally caught up with...


From tonight police will use a portable device to test for drug driving. Tolerance is zero and penalties are stringent. Joseph Dunn reports
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News: Prescription drug drivers to face tougher roadside...


Drivers who take too much of their prescription drugs could fail roadside tests from next month, as new legislation and technology is introduced that...
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News: Drug smugglers stuffed Jaguar X-type with £37m...


In The French Connection, the crooks discreetly store 54kg of heroin in the rocker panels of their Lincoln Continental. In the film’s modern-day...