The driver of a black Volkswagen van that crashed into a traffic bollard in Cardiff's City Road - and another motorist who filmed the person being arrested - both failed DrugWipe tests, say South Wales Police..
South Wales Police confirmed the driver arrested was a 36-year-old man from Newport.
Officers also arrested the second person who filmed the driver being arrested.
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The incident that happened at around round 3pm yesterday afternoon was recounted on the official South Wales Police Cardiff Twitter account @SWP_Roads, with an accompanying photograph of the crash scene.
It read: "Incident 520 City Road, @SWPCardiff 1 vehicle RTC. Driver failed @DrugWipeUK so #arrested.
"Whilst at scene, another driver decided to film us, so was stopped & @DrugWipeUK administered. Also a positive result - also #arrested #2for1 #Team2East ^5825 for 4835/5295."
Prior to the Coivd-19 lockdowns of 2020, there was a 20 per cent increase during 2019 in the number of prosecutions for driving while over the limit for specified controlled drug use in England and Wales, according to a Ministry of Justice report.
The drug driving prosecutions rose from 9,687 in 2018 to 11,614 in 2019, while the corresponding figures for drink-driving were 33,634 and 34,713, representing an increase of three per cent.
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