Australia: Interlock Technology Could Target Victorian Drug Drivers
THE Victorian Government would consider introducing drug interlocks for vehicles of illicit users, if and when technology produces an accurate and efficient device.
Such devices would have a major impact on road fatalities and follow the success of mandatory alcohol interlock devices for drink drivers. Victoria Police and VicRoads are open to considering the technology if it becomes available.
Police will conduct 100,000 roadside illicit drug swab tests this year — up from 42,000 — at a cost of about $35 per test.
About 37 per cent of all drivers and motorcyclists killed on Victorian roads in the past five years had prescription or illicit drugs in their system, with 21 per cent of those killed in 2012 testing positive to THC, the active component of cannabis, and amphetamine-type drugs such as ecstasy, speed and ice, according to the Transport Accident Commission.
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