{"id":10757,"date":"2015-12-29T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T08:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2016-01-19T21:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:58:59","slug":"drink-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/news\/2015\/12\/drink-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Police In Drink Driving Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black', 'Avant Garde'; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Drink Driving<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black', 'Avant Garde'; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sussex Police announce a big crackdown this Christmas which will continue into next year.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Superintendent Jane Derrick, head of road policing said:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We are not complacent and know that drink and drug-driving remains an issue across the counties, and will take action against anyone we suspect could be behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We will not tolerate drink or drug-driving and we are determined to do whatever we can to make the roads safer.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black', 'Avant Garde'; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>A total of 20 drivers have been sentenced for their crimes since Operation Dragonfly &#8211; the Christmas 2015 crackdown on drink and drug-driving &#8211; launched on 1 December. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black', 'Avant Garde'; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Amongst them were the following;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Sam Gordon<\/strong>, 24, unemployed, of Monastery Lane in Storrington, was arrested in Church Street, Storrington on 9 December. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He has since been charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis, failing to stop after a road traffic collision, aggravated vehicle taking and injury cause following a road traffic collision, driving with no insurance and driving with no licence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He is due to appear before Worthing Magistrates&#8217; Court on 14 January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Juliet Robinson-Ovens,<\/strong> 42, a government employee, of Central Hill in London, was arrested in Hilltop Drive, Rye, on 4 December, and charged with driving with 65mg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in her system, and being drunk in charge of a child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">She pleaded guilty to drink-driving at Hastings Magistrates&#8217; Court on Wednesday (23 December) and was disqualified from driving for 19 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">She was also ordered to pay a \u00a3110 fine, a \u00a3150 criminal courts charge, \u00a385 costs and a \u00a320 victim surcharge. The offence of drunk in charge of a child was withdrawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Prezemyslaw Bacia,<\/strong> 29, a packer, of Chichester Road, Bognor Regis, was arrested in Hillsboro Road, Bognor Regis, on 4 December, and charged with driving with 88mg of alcohol per 100ml of breath in his system and driving with no insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He pleaded guilty at Worthing Magistrates&#8217; Court on Tuesday (22 December) and was disqualified from driving for 18 months. He was also ordered to pay a \u00a3290 fine, a \u00a3150 criminal courts charge, \u00a385 costs and a \u00a329 victim surcharge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">People in Sussex can text officers on 65999 with the details of people they suspect of drink or drug driving or visit www.operationcrackdown.co.uk.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">You can also contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 (http:\/\/www.crimestoppers-uk.org\/).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">To keep up to date with officers looking for drink or drug drivers, follow #opdragonfly on Twitter.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">If you know someone is drink driving or after taking drugs call 999.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police warn not to drink and drive writes William Mills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375],"tags":[1012,1500,113],"class_list":["post-10757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-drink-driving","tag-operation-dragonfly","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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