Three motorists test positive for drugs in Scarborough and Whitby police patrols

Police patrolling Scarborough and Whitby seized a car and discovered three drivers who tested positive for drugs.
Seized Land Rover.Seized Land Rover.
Seized Land Rover.

Officers from North Yorkshire Police's roads policing group made the stops over the course of two night shifts.

The car seized was a Land Rover stopped in Scarborough which was shown as uninsured on the police's system.

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Officers said the driver tried to show a valid policy but also had an email showing it had been cancelled.

They also arrested the driver of a white Fiesta headed out of Scarborough on suspicion of drink driving after he failed a roadside breath test.

And they followed a van along the A171 in Whitby which was straddling the central white lines and then overtook another vehicle by crossing a solid white line and approaching the brow of a hill.

Police stopped the vehicle and fined the driver.

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