The high-visibility Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over and Click It or Ticket crackdowns run from August 22 through September 5.
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Georgia law enforcement officials have launched a DUI campaign leading up to Labor Day and are promising zero tolerance for impaired drivers.
“The stepped up enforcement during the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign accomplishes two things”, says Kentwood Police Chief Tom Hillen, “for most people it’s a deterrent that ensures they use a seatbelt, and drives sober or rides with a sober driver, for others, enforcement serves as a safety net”. Officers arrested 351 drivers for drunk driving.
“People need to understand that drunk driving is not only deadly, but it is illegal”, said Sheriff Scott Kent “Drunk driving is a massive problem in the United States, with more than 10,000 people dying annually”. Law enforcement will focus particularly on the Labor Day weekend as motorists hit the road for one last summer vacation.
A year ago there were almost 24,000 convictions statewide for drunk driving.
“Although drunken driving is 100 percent preventable, 190 people were killed and almost 2,900 were injured in alcohol-related crashes in Wisconsin previous year”, Sheriff James Kowalczyk said in a press release.
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Additionally, 40 percent of crash fatalities on Labor Day weekend in 2014 involved drunk drivers (with blood alcohol concentrations [BACs] of.08 or higher), amounting to 162 lives lost. “Hundreds of families are suffering tragic consequences because drivers made the wrong choice to drive drunk”. Law enforcement officers’ skills in detecting and identifying drunk drivers have never been better.
