Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, and the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office will be conducting special DUI patrols March 16 and 17. Detective Dick Blust. Jr. says that crashes involving drunk drivers spike nationwide over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, and the extra patrols have been set up as part of a campaign to cut down on DUI-related injury and death.
Thirty percent of Americans will be involved at some point in their lives in an alcohol-related crash, whether they have been drinking or not, and statistics confirm that alcohol is a factor in forty percent of all crash fatalities.
Blust also wants to remind you that if someone you are with has had too much to drink and is about to drive, stop them; they’ll thank you for it later. You are also encouraged to call in a drunk driver if you see them on the road. Be sure to get a vehicle description and license plate number.
Thirty percent of Americans will be involved at some point in their lives in an alcohol-related crash, whether they have been drinking or not, and statistics confirm that alcohol is a factor in forty percent of all crash fatalities.
Blust also wants to remind you that if someone you are with has had too much to drink and is about to drive, stop them; they’ll thank you for it later. You are also encouraged to call in a drunk driver if you see them on the road. Be sure to get a vehicle description and license plate number.
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