Drivers face £5,000 fines and a driving ban for breaking crucial road rules in a new police campaign. More than 100 drink and drug drivers were arrested in Cumbria during July’s road safety operation targeting the Fatal Four.

Operation Spotlight is a national road safety operation which focuses on the Fatal Four: speeding, using a mobile phone at the wheel, not wearing a seatbelt and driving under the influence of drink and/or drugs.

Inspector Jack Stabler, lead for Cumbria’s Roads Policing Unit, said: “It has been another busy Operation Spotlight for our officers. However, I must emphasise that catching dangerous drivers is our day business in the Roads Policing Unit.

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“So whilst this operation has come

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