POLICE swooped on 245 drink-drivers in a two week blitz on Lancashire motorists.
And almost half the positive breath tests were recorded in East Lancashire, police revealed following the crackdown.
Blackburn's police division came out on top of the drink-drive league, with 75 motorists arrested for failing breath tests, five of them were involved in accidents. In Burnley there were 32 arrests.
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