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Police plan DUI crackdown The Holly Springs Police Department has announced it is launching a new “Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest.” crackdown during the Labor Day holiday. Drunk driving is one of America’s deadliest crimes. In fact, during 2004, nearly 13,000 people were killed in highway crashes involving an impaired driver or motorcycle operator with an illegal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. The picture for motorcycle operators is particularly bleak. Forty-one percent of the 1,672 motorcycle operators who died in single-vehicle crashes in 2004 had BAC levels of .08 or higher. That is why the Holly Springs Police Department announced it will be joining with thousands of other law enforcement and highway safety agencies across the nation during August and the Labor Day holiday to launch an aggressive new crackdown on impaired drivers called “Drunk Driving.Over the Limit.Under Arrest.” “Make no mistake. Our message is simple. No matter what you drive - a passenger car, pickup, sport utility vehicle or motorcycle - if we encounter you driving impaired, we will arrest you. No exceptions. No excuses,” said Chief Robert Pearson. “We will be out in force conducting sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and using undercover officers to get more drunk drivers off the road. We want everyone to play it safe and always designate a sober driver or find a different way home if they have been out drinking.” Driving with a BAC of .08 or higher is illegal in every state. Although drunk driving fatalities across the nation slightly declined in 2003 and 2004, alcohol-related fatalities are projected to increase in 2005. Moreover, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, more than 1.4 million people were arrested for driving under the influence in 2004. “Drunk driving is simply not worth the risk,” Pearson said. “Not only do you risk killing yourself or someone else, but the trauma and financial costs of a crash or an arrest for impaired driving can be significant. Violators often face jail time and the loss of their driving privileges.” |
 
 
 
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