tonight on crime fighters clearing up the carriageway three vehicles in lane three one on the hard shoulder and ridding the roads of drunk drivers now it's gone straight up to red straightaway which is indicating a fail and the numbers are still going up [Music] [Music] it's a few weeks before Christmas and PC Darryl Moulton of Derbyshire Police has been called to an accident on a maybe this side where's your Carlin I'm amazed you have a clean over to the driver lost control coming around the corner and skidded off the road remarkably he's on earth have a job pulling this now shortly we've got a fair or distance out yeah yeah very lucky have you drink at all tonight I just smell smell yeah I got a pond yeah what would it just give you a quick breath test first okay keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going lovely house babe you just passed me that back little just analyze the content in your in your breath basically right we're very lucky there I don't know what you had to drink but it must be more than one one I would say looking at this you've come up with 24 your legal limits 35 so you you know you're getting up there so just want to think about isn't it you know if you have had another one then in a different story okay the moral of this story is exactly don't don't drive as fast and anything I'm sure next time you'll think about having a drink learnt you really because I suppose when you have it go on that to Windows machine you were thinking I knew what it's not yeah I'd say it's probably worrying but and can't believe it's happened that you know when you've shown me the distance there that's it's quite a believer how far you've gone isn't it and I come I just as a London I felt I'd roll because when I had it the top of the car and I got I thought well I thought I still and that's why I started it Oh try to reverse and helps you want me I thought just see where the road is intimidate which way the road was okay yeah aren't you okay alright that's good I'm speaking to you the cars towed away and the driver goes oh he was under the drink-drive limit but anyone involved in an accident is now routinely brutalized and in the run-up to Christmas drink driving it's a priority for police people that will take the risk as well and there are also people that just don't care because we stopped people and they're falling out the car drop and that's that's not just having two pints of whatever that's drinking to excess wanted to reduce the number of casualties in them and collisions that occur and a lot of collisions are caused by people drinking last year nearly 600 people were killed in the UK in drink drive accidents 17,000 were injured by law police need a reason to breathalyze drivers Darren and partner PC and ear I asked this woman to take a test after smelling alcohol on her breath the legal limit is 35 okay if you just look down at the machine it says 20 yeah okay so you well under the drink-drive limit so credit to you for not overdoing it okay but hopefully she'll get home she'll tell a partner probably tell her friends at work tomorrow and a friends at work tomorrow I'll tell everybody else that she's been breathalyzed by the police and that's what he wants because more people to tell other people have been breathalyzed Derbyshire police are also responsible for one of the busy stretches of the m1 pcs Chris cope steak and John Roberts are on their way to an accident near Chesterfield we just took the part of a year two vehicle collision witnesses have said that the big the twice now once we get there it's to protect the sea make sure that all persons who owned the vehicles safe and well than to get them in the vehicles across to the hard shoulder from tangled remember six one stay six information we've got three vehicles in lane three one on the hard shoulder you're alright you're writing this just stay with a vehicle I'll get that traffic stopped we just walk just beware though these cars are gonna cross though standard to the side of the barrier okay [Music] stop there [Music] what actually happened we'll stay here just protect the scene and hopefully people respond to it and just slow down but not slow down off the course problems behind us I've just learned that there's a which is the Volkswagen Golf it's been troubling it along in lane three he thinks he's had a blowout on his tire it's caused him to swerve and he's collided with the central reservation once the carriageways clear Chris takes the drivers details and checks that he's arranged for his car to be recovered just so you know we're not going to take any further action [Applause] what you're doing say oh yeah I'm asking you in town and he's checking up on a man sitting in a car you've got full driving licence well good is it with you them yeah Terry's driving license but it's raining outside in - it'd be all right won't it I've warned you not swear at me all right I'm not swearing at you the reason I looked at your car okay's with compacts you just sat in it all right we should raise me suspicions all right if somebody was trying to Nick it then you'd want me to have a look at it won't you yeah you'd do anything say again I could do anything Costin would if someone's trying to Nick it all right visits your car that's all right thank you you stick your fingers apart you know I've already warned you on the section five the police are coming have exactly two fingers of platting with the senior all right no more swearing no more gestures a wise you'll end up coming reverse and you know what the score is all right okay Cheers just off the motorway another drivers caught John's eye basically we just through 30 area this blokes pulled out from the off side of the road traffic lights have gone to green and you set off we just checked him average speed was forty seven point four eight saying only to a 40 mile an hour speed area and his speeds been up to 55 miles an hour so he's obviously not respecting any of the speed limits hello they all right come on stand on the pavement to list a minute you know why I've stopped you at all it's 30 mile an hour speed limit Bertie yeah we're doing be no you weren't we've recorded your speed 47.88 I think it is 47 yeah you don't went into the forties which is just on the brow of the hill okay and as you came down the hill you're doing 55 the five yes is the only reason why I doing that speed no wheezing no I'm windows out and sure I wouldn't do that well a delivery no yeah delivery I've got plenty of time alright ok just come to the car and I'll show you you see the red reading there that top reading there is your average speed that that machine is recorded your vehicle doing surely I weren't doing that in the fair tomorrow I'm enrolled you were aware yeah how many points do you have doesn't really matter now well it does matters to me because if you've got nine points I can't give you a ticket oh okay I've got nine points in well have you got nine point yes I do I'm gonna check yeah I do have no I can't give you a ticket then so because that will take you up to twelve point yes and at twelve points to score and ban you from driving all right how recent is that last month to to last month's you have three points instead of a ticket the driver will be summoned to appear in court you've explained to me that in the last month yeah yeah this is now the third time you've been stopped for exceeding 30 miles an hour okay you've got to ask yourself are you learning from being caught because clearly you're not ie you can continue to drive until the time comes that the court or a court says to you we are disqualifying you right okay you're not disqualified at the moment the man was later disqualified from driving and find 55 pounds still to come the consequences of drink driving home the knock on the door on the early hours of the Monday morning to see a door traffic officer stood there and then have that delivered that you've lost his son he's probably the worst thing that's ever happened to us we're with PC down mother-tongue from Derbyshire Police as the forces Christmas tree driving campaign gathers Pez just had a report with a person who's drinking just just laughed so we're just gonna say we've all had the very tip offs from members of the public are an important part of the fight against drunk driving Darren is told to look out for a navy blue Land Rover vehicle and asked up in there tango Sierra six eight the reason why I've stopped you okay is that I've have information that you may have had a drink today correct I can smell out on your breath what I'm going to do is ask you to Brian specimen a breath a breath nest if you just want to jump in the back on the left what I want you to do is take a deep breath and blow into it long enough and hard enough to register resort keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going that's great thank you very much okay it's now analyzing the amount of alcohol in the body okay now it's gone straight up to red straight away which is indicating a fail and the numbers are still going up now the legal limit is 35 and we're up to 118 at the moment so what I'm telling is you failed the roadside breath test down arresting you for providing a positive sample breath therefore you do not have to say anything but it may harm your defense if you don't mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court anything you do say may be given in evidence it's actually settled at 121 so I'm supposed to be at 30 no 35 is the legal limit but this is a screening device at the moment the evidential breath testers at the police station okay yeah the man will now have to go to the police station to be formally tested the first down needs to secure his car so I'm gonna get it recovered and they're gonna get please please men to wait with it okay just tell me where the button is for your windows all right you just want to come this way if you just want to put your seatbelt on for me I'm just going through this door at the station the man was found to be twice over the drink-drive limit he was later banned from driving for 18 months and fined 500 pounds this is Adrian with a 18 and behind is that three weddings kill Adrian Davison died alongside his best friend Nigel who was driving in a car crashed into a tree they're on their way home after a night out in Leeds just both 18 year old lads do wear out just to enjoy themselves and live life to the full and unfortunately resulted in tragic loss of both lives Nigel was 20 milligrams over the drink-drive limit when he lost control overtaking another car so I'm not hungry towards Nigel in any shape I thought you know I would say to any not just young person but anybody in general you know if the thinking of drinking to drive driving it's really just not worth taking the risk not from the point that they may kill the self but potentially could kill somebody else the knock on the door on the early hours of the Monday morning to see a traffic officer stood there and then have that delivered that you've lost his son is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to his you can't describe the feelings and the emotions that you ago that we went through at that time and even now I mean I can almost relive that morning verbatim and also what was said and it's just one of those things that all stay in the memory forever you know as parents you never expect to have to bury your children you expect them to be burying you but unfortunately on this occasion it wasn't the case and anything that I or anyone else can say that may make people think again about drinking and driving - so that they don't have the similar sort of death notice delivered and have to go through all the grief and trauma that way we've both families have had to go through although the number of drink-drive deaths fell through the 1980s the mid-90s in recent years there's been a worry an increase on Derbyshire roads alone over 2000 people tested over the limit last year so drink-driving remains a priority back on the road Darren and Andy have just that a call six-year-old child little pale and that's all the details we've got at the moment when they arrived the paramedics are already there hello luckily the little boy has only got cuts and bruises dad's got registration as I yeah I stopped to make sure just on your leg yeah described it as a silver Civic attack vehicle female le as Darren takes some details the boys mom arrives Alex was in there with his dad he's absolutely fine there's nothing to worry about till he's got one of two bruises to his knees he's just being attracted by the ambulance stuff it's quite within quite alive and everything and it could have been a lot worse because he's been through this incident he's got it into his mind now that is gonna be stopping up late tonight and having a McDonald's okay we'll leave it with you then guys okay all right Cheers up the car involved he's registered to a house a few streets away yes we believe somebody finally suggest me involved in road traffic leave me are you okay yeah are you all right because you've been enrolled in road traffic collision and because you've admitted being the driver and when here's sample of your breath as well okay just okay okay well give it how long ago did you have that give that whiskey time to come away from your breath alcohol okay what were you actually doing at the time there was a car parked on the other side yep and this lad just runs straight out he couldn't see me and obviously I didn't see him until he was there the side of the car so I stopped spicer so we should be good okay why did you leave before we got there because the the father acknowledged that it wasn't my fault okay okay after waiting 20 minutes the ladies breathalyzed hello blow blow blow blow blow blow thank you okay that sound there's indicated that that's the end of the test if blown zir rope so that little sip of whiskey but it's completely worn off and that's the end in the matter thank you on the motorway John and Chris are on the tail of a speeder vehicle we're checking exactly in Lane one two vehicles up we're now doing just over 90 miles an hour well now I just looking for appropriate place to take him off the check back is an average speed of 87 point 5 4 miles an hour what he's gonna do is obviously we invite the drivers to come in view the evidence on the machine they see the average speed is 87 point 5 4 miles an hour that's over a distance of three point two to five miles we'll do this we'll go back to your vehicle let's play into how the offense can be dealt with and you'll be on your way to about five minutes okay the woman is fine 60 pounds and given three points how many points on your license there's a first time for everything isn't it's the end of a long night for Daren and Andy on the way back to the station they spot a car with illegal blue lights the reason why we've stopped is soon as you came past us I noticed that you've got blue lights in the front all right yeah you're not supposed to have blue ones basically all right standard ball okay I've only just got the car so I didn't know but how long have you owned it I've owned it for a couple of weeks now okay what I'm gonna do I'm gonna give you a form just to make sure you get those lights fix for me and put back down it should be okay if you want to sit in your car yeah so I just need to take a few details off you have you ever had one of these forms before no okay it's called a vehicle defect form and it gives you 14 days to sort out the problem with your life okay I've been dealt with the driver it looks like he's gonna need a helping hand you're gonna get it started in this short space here those blue bulbs ready [Music] [Music]