PAST and present action to prevent death and injury caused by drink driving formed the theme of police's annual Christmas campaign.
Drink drive campaigns were first launched 26 years ago and is is thought more than 20,000 lives have been saved on the roads since then and hundreds of thousands of injuries prevented.
In 1976 more than 1,600 people were killed in drink related road accidents. Last year this had fallen to 520.
To mark the 25th anniversary and to launch this year's campaign, police and road safety campaigners took a trip down memory lane with an old-style breathalyser bag and a modern alcometer along with cars from the era.
The campaign was launched at Lancashire Police headquarters in Hutton, near Preston this week.
Police later carried out spot checks on motorists on the roads including Vivary Way in Colne.
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