6 Dec, 2022 @ 17:30
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LEAVE THE CAR AT HOME: Anti drink drive campaign in Spain targets Christmas parties

Breathalyser tests are always stepped up over Christmas
Breathalyser tests are always stepped up over Christmas

WITH the double bank holiday week upon us, the DGT traffic department has launched an anti-drink driving campaign.

The ‘puente’ week is popular amongst businesses in which to hold boozy Christmas parties. But The DGT is warning people to leave their cars at home, stressing that there will be plenty of police checkpoints until Sunday night (December 11).

During the 2021 campaign, 27,238 drivers were checked,with 781 testing positive for alcohol and/or drugs. Of these, around 80% were detected at police checkpoints.

Breathalyser tests are always stepped up over Christmas
Breathalyser tests are always stepped up over Christmas

Regarding alcohol, 2021’s campaign, say 26,284 people breathalysed with 1.48% (388 drivers) positive. 

Of the 954 drug detection tests carried out on drivers, 393 were positive, or 41.19% of the total.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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