Police in Iceland’s Suðurnes region, located in the southwest of the country, report a 67 percent increase in drug-driving cases so far this year, or a rise from 89 to 149 individual cases, mbl.is reports.
Archive photo: Páll Stefánsson/Iceland Review.
Police, however, point out that the numbers don’t tell the whole story as some cases relate to the same drivers being repeatedly stopped by authorities.
A total of 154 cases were reported in 2012.
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