FIVE drivers were arrested on suspicion of drink and drug driving in one night this week.

North Yorkshire Police said the arrests were made across the region between 5.15pm on Wednesday and 9.40am on Thursday, as part of Operation Attention - the force’s summer drink and drug drive campaign.

Three people were arrested on suspicion of drink driving and two for suspected drug driving, and a force spokesman said almost 20 per cent of those arrested so far in this year’s campaign were more than three times the legal drink-drive limit.

Sergeant Andy Morton said: “We have reached the halfway point of this summer’s operation and so far, everything indicates towards the fact we are going to see the alarming trend of drivers being multiple times the legal limit continuing throughout this year’s campaign. We’re not talking about people being a few micrograms over the limit. Fifty-five per cent of the arrests we have made, are drivers who are at least double the legal limit, with the highest reading so far being provided by a 36-year-old man from Leeds who blew 136 micrograms – just under four times the limit.”

Sgt Morton said he expected more unsafe drivers on the roads this weekend, due to the expected good weather.

He said: “The Roads Policing Group will be patrolling the regions roads and will be alert to the tell-tale signs of drink or drug driving.