Road rules / 🇬🇧 alcohol
Can you commit a drug-driving offence with legally prescribed medicine?
✓ ANSWER
Yes - if it impairs your driving you can be prosecuted
Driving while impaired by any drug, including prescribed or over-the-counter medicine, is an offence.
All the options
- ✓Yes - if it impairs your driving you can be prosecuted
- ✗No - prescriptions make you exempt
- ✗Only if you also drank alcohol
- ✗Only on motorways
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