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Designate a Sober Driver this Memorial Day Weekend

Celebrate safely over Memorial Day weekend.

Memorial Day weekend is traditionally the kick-off for summer. It’s

also one of the deadliest drunk driving holidays of the year. Celebrate safely this Memorial Day weekend by designating a sober driver before drinking begins.

Many local law enforcement agencies across the nation will step up their drunk driving enforcement this weekend with crackdowns including sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and “No Refusal” nights in which drivers stopped for drunk driving are given a mandatory blood draw if they refused a breath test to determine their blood alcohol content (BAC).

Sobriety checkpoints stop drunk drivers before they get on the road.
 
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    Checkpoints are proven to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths and injuries by 18-24 percent.
  • The primary goal of a checkpoint is not to arrest people, but to deter people from committing DUI in the first place.
  • Checkpoints are typically publicized in advance to warn drivers that if they drive drunk, they’ll be caught and arrested.
  • Law-abiding people are sent on their way within minutes.
  • Average stop time is about the length of a cycle at a stop light.
  • Sobriety checkpoints help stop drunk drivers who would likely remain under the radar.
  • For every dollar invested in checkpoints, communities save between $6 and $23 in costs from alcohol-related crashes.
  • The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes to society is over $100 billion.
These ten states do not allow sobriety checkpoints: Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.  If you're from one of these states, urge your lawmakers to support sobriety checkpoints.