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Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)Five cyclists hospitalised, suspected drug driver arrested, after road traffic collision in Derbyshire
A man has been arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence of drugs following a road traffic collision in Derbyshire today that led to five cyclists being taken to hospital, one of whom has what police describe as “potentially life threatening injuries.”
The collision took place at around 12.10pm this afternoon in Ault Hucknall, which lies between Mansfield and Chesterfield.
Police said that “Four of the riders have received serious but not life-threatening injuries and have been taken to Chesterfield Royal Hospital while another rider, a man in his 50s, has suffered potentially life threatening injuries.
“He has been taken to the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, by land ambulance after the air ambulance landed at Tibshelf.”
Derbyshire Constabulary said that the 19-year-old driver of the Seat Ibiza involved in the collision was arrested on suspicion of driving whilst over the drug drive limit.
Officers have appealed for anyone who was in the area at the time and who may have information, and in particular anyone who may have dashcam or CCTV footage of the incident, to contact them quoting reference number 420-311219.
Police can be contacted via private message on Facebook or Twitter, or through a contact form on the Derbyshire Constabulary website.
Alternatively, they can be reached via the non-emergency number 101 and information can also be given, anonymously, to the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Incidents like these should ALWAYS be charged as against the persons, as in an GBH, if the driver doesn't get 7 years and a perm ban then it's business as usual, do what you like in a car as we won't do owt except slap on the wrist and can't actually enforce keeping you off the roads in any case so you can still drive illegally like several million drivers already.
This costs the country billions, literally KSIs are costing tens of billions per year never mind the misery and suffering, but when a single cyclist deliberately attempts to avoid an errant pedestrian, the world goes into meltdown and hatred of all those on a bike is the norm and it's open season again for hate crimes and worse!
Consumption of anything containing poppy seed would cause a fail on an opiate test if set at anything over 0. It also used to be the case that most of our paper money was contaminated with cocaine, minute quantities, but detectable, some of this contamination will be absorbed or ingested.
How much THC is absorbed through the secondary smoke from breathing it in when out and about? It is a familier smell. And cannibanoids stay in the body for a long time.
I had next to nothing to drink last night and I don't get it either.
Double post
It always astounds me that the charge for arrest is for a traffic offence, in this case "driving under the influence", the injuring of 5 people 91 seriously) is completely ignored in the charge.
Not all drugs are illegal, you can be over the limit with various prescription or over the counter drugs
"arrested on suspicion of driving whilst over the drug drive limit."
Is there really a permissable tolernce limit for driving under the influence of illeagle substances, this world gets crazier by the minute
Yes and no. Yes, as you need a limit to test above as some chemicals can occur naturally in the body or be from other sources; no, as the limit is essentially intended to be zero.
I was at a work briefing several years ago for staff working in particularly dangerous environments, they were I was initially (reluctantly) accepting that moving the tolerance for alcohol from the drink drive limit to a level of zero tolerance, then the second half of the briefing was explaining the tolerance levels for illegle drugs... I refused to sign the acceptance register (as did other who listened to my arguments) and refused to brief it to my staff.
The policy for a UK arm of large multinational was withdrawn and redrafted, I had left by the time the next version was launched
Not sure what you're trying to say...?
Just exactly what point are you trying to make here? I have no idea what it is you are trying to say.
same, I've read this x3 times and I'm not getting it.
In understood it, I think.
He objected to the legal drug (alcohol) limit being zero while the illegal drug limit was non zero. If anything, it should be the other way round.
Presumably down to the relative accuracy of the different tests? Also, ironic that the original post reads as if the writer was under the influence of something when they attempted to write it.
A speedy recovery to all those injured.