GARRETT â Local and county police officers have a new roadside tool to combat drug-impaired driving through the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute.
The Garrett Police Department is among 52 Indiana law enforcement agencies to receive the SoToxa Mobile Test System, a handheld analyzer that uses an oral fluid swab to detect the presence of six kinds of drugs: cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, cannabis (THC), amphetamine and benzodiazepines.
The units cost $4,500 each, are reusable and were paid for with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funds. In total, ICJI is distributing 66 devices to 52 departments around the state. Other northeast Indiana departments receiving a device include Angola, Fort Wayne, and Elkhart city and county agencies.
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Traffic deaths in N.J. are up this year, despite fewer cars on the road. Bad behavior is to blame.
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Traffic fatalities in New Jersey are higher than they were this time last year and on a deadly trend to finish 2020 with more deaths than last year, despite a drop in traffic earlier in the year, due to the coronavirus.
Safety experts said the death toll in New Jersey reflects what’s happening nationally, that traffic deaths increased in 2020, despite COVID-19 travel restrictions that emptied the roads during the pandemic’s peak.
As of Dec. 13, the state had 556 traffic deaths, which included pedestrians and people on bikes. That is 23 deaths more than 533 fatalities that occurred during the same time period in 2019, according to state police statistics. So far there have been 523 fatal crashes in 2020, compared to 501 collisions by the same date in 2019. These are the most recent figures available as of Monday.