It really could only happen in Ireland!
Gardai have been advised that their new drug testing kits mightn’t work when it gets even moderately cold.
The Medical Bureau of Road Safety have warned the traffic corps that the device might not properly work when temperatures are 5c degrees of below.
The kit use saliva samples to determine whether a driver has taken drugs such as cocaine, heroin and even cannabis.
The Medical Bureau said:
“At temperatures lower than 5C the analyser is capable of operating as it has the capacity to provide heat internally,”
“Where the analyser cannot achieve 5C, a ‘low temperature message’ will be displayed and it will not be possible to do a test.”
If this proves to be correct then you can only imagine the amount of legal cases which people could argue that the kits were faulty in the first place.