Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Benefits of Drug Testing in Traffic Incidents

Every year many accidents are happening due to drunken driving and driving under the influence of illicit drugs. These incidents are not only taking the lives of the people who are abusing it and also the lives of many innocent people who become victim of these road accidents. Not only accidents, the drugs are becoming the greatest cause for many homicides and suicides. Since, these substances affect the central nervous system of the person, he is not aware of what he is doing under the drugs influence and hence commit mistakes.

Here are few benefits of doing drug tests in traffic incidents.

Reduced accident rate: with the help of drug testing the traffic police are detecting the people who are driving under the influence of drugs and punishing them with huge penalties or some months of imprisonment. This makes the people aware of the situation that driving under drug influence is a crime and they don't tend to do such kind of things in future. This results in the reduced number of accidents caused due to drug driving.

Helps as a legal evidence: Many legal cases relating to accidents involves a person driving under the influence of drugs. In such conditions, drug testing helps in finding the reason for the accident very easily and hence making the case simple. This is the reason why many cases involving drug abuse find this test effective.

Reduces Death Rate: As a result of random checking for the drug abuse people are feared of getting caught by the police at any time and hence they try not to use these drugs while driving. This helps to decrease the number of deaths caused due to accidents happening under the influence of drugs.

These are the few benefits of using drug testing in traffic incidents.



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