Drunk Drivers on Notice: Drive Drunk, Get Arrested!

Drunk driving is one of America's deadliest crimes. In 2007, an estimated 12,998 people died in alcohol-related traffic crashes nationwide involving a driver with an illegal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. The last weeks of summer vacation including the Labor Day holiday weekend are a heavy travel time and period of increased drunk driving fatalities and injuries. That’s why thousands of state highway safety and law enforcement agencies across the nation are conducting a major drunk driving crackdown over the next few weeks. The national Impaired Driving Enforcement Crackdown, Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest, runs August 15 through September 1 and includes sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols.

Though alcohol-related crashes in Delaware are down by nearly 10%, compared to this time last year, still and average of 3 people each month (24) total have died in alcohol-related crashes since January 1st.  Another 120 have been arrested for DUI since June 27th when the Office of Highway Safety (OHS) launched the seventh annual Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign.

"Driving while impaired by alcohol and/or drugs is illegal, yet we continue to see far too many people suffer debilitating injuries and loss of their loved ones because people make the wrong choices," said Tricia Roberts, Director of the Office of Highway Safety. "This careless disregard for human life must stop. To help ensure that happens, officers will be out in force to arrest impaired drivers. No exceptions. No excuses." During the crackdown period, 32 State, County, and municipal police agencies are scheduled to conduct a total of 9 sobriety checkpoints and 477 DUI saturation patrols.

The mission of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime and prevent underage drinking. 
La misión de MADD es evitar el conducir en estado de ebriedad, apoyar a las víctimas de este crimen violento y la de prevenir que los menores de edad ingieran bebidas alcohólicas.
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