Motorists in Australia’s Queensland will now be tested to see if they have cocaine in their system, with the drug added to the list of illicit substances that roadside police drug vans are set up to detect.
The state had the countries highest road toll last year, with 299 lives lost.
61 people were killed as a result of crashes that involved a drug driver or rider.
Government data shows an increase in the number of people with cocaine in their system after a serious crash in the state rose from 3.6 per cent between 2018 to 2019 up to 7.1 per cent between 2020 to 2021.
The figures are taken from hospital data….