A crackdown on drink-driving was so successful it is to be repeated this summer.

Hambleton Community Safety Partnership held a roadshow in the run up to Christmas, sending out the message "don't become an accident statistic."

More than 10,000 people visited the roadshow at Northallerton, Stokesley, Bedale, Thirsk and Easingwold.

It reinforced the Government's national drink-driving campaign and was backed with strong enforcement action by police in the county.

Officers targeted known hotspots and had the highest arrest rate in the county following the breath tests on suspected drink-drivers.

More than 400 people were stopped in the eastern division, which covers Hambleton, and nine per cent were over the limit.

"This was a hugely successful campaign," said the partnership's road safety officer, Simon Gibson. "We hope that we will be repeating it in the summer when, traditionally, drink-driving is even more of a problem.

"We are determined to crack down on this problem.

"Those people who drink and drive invariably only hurt other people. They walk free from these accidents and leave others suffering.

"We have shown that those people who persist in drinking and driving will get caught and face the appropriate penalties."