Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Solvent & Gas Use Headlines - January 2022

UK

Teenager, 17, died after 'tragic accident' on West Norfolk road, inquest told A forensic collision investigation report by PC Graeme Brookes concluded that his inexperience, the effects of the gas and excessive speed for the corner were likely to have contributed to the crash.

The cowardly Sheffield wannabe gangster who ran away to Skegness Dunford, 27, was sentenced for running over and killing Naomi Colcomb, 28, while he was high on nitrous oxide in 2018

'Gas-huffing' kids playing 'Russian roulette' with their lives According to national solvent abuse charity Re-Solv, butane is the “most dangerous” solvent used for inhalation and associated with half of all solvent abuse deaths.

Kids buy industrial-sized laughing gas containers big enough to fill 70 balloons 
The laughing gas epidemic is now so rampant that kids are buying it in industrial-sized containers.

Powys man threatened neighbour with hammer A MAN threatened his neighbour with a hammer after drinking alcohol and inhaling butane.

Ireland

Woman caught sniffing gas canisters at Cork filling station on Christmas Day Accused was charged with being intoxicated to such an extent that she was a danger to herself or others


New Zealand

Three women found severely hurt in car wreck near Twello Police found a nitrous oxide tank and several balloons in the car.