Udine, high technology for driver checks by the Traffic Police
With five police patrols a newly licensed driver was reported for driving under the influence of a narcotic substance
Udine, on the night of Saturday 22 January, along the Alpe Adria A/23 motorway at the Ledra Est service area the Traffic Police carried out a complex series of checks whose aim was to ascertain whether the psychophysical conditions of the drivers were altered by the intake of alcoholic or psychotropic substances. As many as 5 traffic police patrols and 3 health workers checked 27 vehicles and 36 people within the service area.
The road safety campaign is part of a fruitful collaboration with Autostrade per l'Italia which has made available a real forensic laboratory equipped with instruments of the highest biomedical technology which make it possible, at the place where the vehicle is stopped and in extremely rapid times, to carry out a check that would otherwise be carried out at hospital healthcare facilities, favoring thus a clear saving of time and resources.
The forensic laboratory is equipped with a mass gas chromatograph capable of detecting the presence of psychotropic, psychoactive or narcotic substances in the organism by analyzing the salivary biological matrix. The doctors who collaborated with the police throughout the night are instead called to establish the impaired conditions of the drivers. In fact, the complexity of these checks lies in the need for evidence of substance intake to be accompanied by evidence of behavioral alteration.
Precisely for this reason, drivers found to have taken drugs are subjected to a real medical examination in order to establish any psychophysical alterations that would make them unfit to drive.
During the checks a newly licensed driver, already reported to the Prefecture for possession of narcotic substances, he was reported for driving under the influence of a narcotic substance, in particular cannabinoids, and a Friulian woman with a blood alcohol level of 0,6 grams of alcohol per liter of blood was fined for driving while intoxicated.
The State Police, in reiterating the danger of these behaviors for the safety of people and traffic safety, invites road users to be aware of the fact that the "driving license and booklet" document control is now systematically associated with the control of psychophysical conditions.
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