{"id":332987,"date":"2025-12-24T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332987\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:30:08","slug":"hundreds-still-drink-and-drug-driving-in-lincolnshire-say-lincolnshire-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332987\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds still drink and drug-driving in Lincolnshire, say Lincolnshire Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Insp Baxter said: &#8220;People go to Christmas parties and maybe have too much to drink and drive the next morning or they just have a few at the office party and drive home that evening &#8211; people who probably at other times of year wouldn&#8217;t consider doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He urged people to plan travel in advance and get a designated driver, arrange a taxi home or use public transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The science is there,&#8221; said Insp Baxter. &#8220;It [alcohol or drugs] does impact on your reaction times and ability to drive carefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this month, Simon Outen-Coe, from Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership, said: &#8220;If you are one of those individuals who believes this is a safe practice, or frankly just don&#8217;t care, then just remember \u2013 your decision will have a lasting impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It may just be the loss of your job, house and driving licence. In the worst circumstances, it will be the loss of your freedom and the incredible lasting hurt that your selfish actions have had on others.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insp Baxter said: &#8220;People go to Christmas parties and maybe have too much to drink and drive the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-332987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}