Road-users are heeding police advice warning them not to drink and drive, according to new figures.

Results from the Christmas and New Year period show a drop in the number of positive breath tests during the month-long campaign across Surrey.

Between December 1, 2010, and January 1, 2011, a total of 1,131 roadside breath tests were carried out, of which 50 were positive.

This compares to 1,769 breath tests during the 2009-10 campaign, of which 106 were positive.

Inspector Chris Colley, of Surrey Police roads policing unit, said: “The continuing drop in the number of positive breath tests, particularly involving younger drivers, during the campaign each year is very encouraging and an indication that our combination of enforcement and targeted publicity activity is working.

“Surrey Police fully supported this year’s national Christmas drink-drive campaign with robust enforcement throughout the county and, in partnership with Surrey County Council, an eye-catching publicity campaign with a hard-hitting message that drinking and driving shatters lives, which I am pleased to say seems to have made drivers think twice about drinking and driving.”