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

Published 14 August 2022
By James Mills
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.
Published 30 May 2022
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.
Published 12 November 2020
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
Published 05 March 2017
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...
Published 26 December 2016
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
Published 23 November 2015
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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...
Published 13 October 2015
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
Published 01 March 2015
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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...
Published 16 February 2015
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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...
Published 09 October 2014