New device to crack down on high drivers

The Kansas Highway Patrol hopes the new technology will help troopers crack down on people driving while high on drugs.

[NicholasWingComposer]

Thank you for your DUI-D road safety leadership in Indiana. I propose that all patrol vehicles be equipped with the affordable laboratory oral fluid collectors for post-collision forensic drug testing, after establishing probable cause and gaining a court ordered search warrant to test the DUI-D driver. Reasonable DUI-D laws continue to be delayed here in the U.S., and more victims of DUI-D drivers, including drug-endangered children and child victims of DUI-D drivers with serious injuries, traumatic brain injuries and permanent disabilities, will go without justice. According to the NTSB, the average delay in collecting an evidential sample is two hours. According to road safety authorities, forensic science experts and administrators these delays will result in inaccurate evidence as well as a complete loss of evidence of DUI-D. France is now detecting over 100, 000 DUI-D drivers per year. Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Ireland, Norway, Scotland and Wales, among other countries, are now utilizing roadside oral fluid drug testing kits to detect DUI-D drivers. While here in the U.S. victims of DUI-D drivers continue to go without accurate evidence of DUI-D, and are left with irreversible quality of life-changing injuries. The legislators who have been delaying reasonable DUI-D laws and programs should be asked to participate in a public demonstration of the roadside oral fluid drug testing devices in a press conference or during a legislative committee hearing. Did any of the proven illicit cocaine positive elected officials vote against providing accurate evidence for victims of DUI-D drivers in post collision situations? If so, those elected officials also voted against providing accurate evidence of DUI-D to drug-endangered children and child victims of DUI-D drivers who now suffer everyday with permanent disabilities as a result of DUI-D collisions.

[Nardiumms]

What if the substance was in their bloodstream (i.e.) from a few days before, say marijuana, from a legal state? And they get tested for it days later and run a positive in Kansas?