Drunk Driving. Over the Limit.
Under Arrest
Crackdown
Major Enforcement Effort Seeks to Save Lives
The national Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest. impaired driving
crackdown is a prevention program organized by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) that focuses on combining high-visibility enforcement with heightened public awareness through advertising
and publicity.
This year’s effort is supported by $11 million in paid-national advertising to help put everyone
on notice that if they are caught driving impaired, they will be arrested.
Drunk
driving is one of America’s deadliest crimes. In 2005, nearly 13,000 people died in highway crashes involving a driver
or motorcycle operator with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. The
picture for motorcycle operators is particularly bleak. Forty-one percent of the 1,878 motorcycle operators who died in single-vehicle
crashes in 2005 had BAC levels of .08 or higher.
Thousands of other law enforcement
and highway safety agencies across the nation from August 17 throughout the Labor Day holiday will take part in the Drunk
Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest. crackdown on impaired driving.
Officers will be out
in force conducting sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and using undercover officers to get more drunk drivers off the
road—and save lives that might otherwise be lost.
Driving with a BAC of .08 or higher is illegal in every state.
Drunk driving is simply not
worth the risk. 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, the loss of their driver’s license,
higher insurance rates, attorney fees, time away from work, and dozens of other expenses.
“So don’t take the chance. Remember,
if you are over the limit, you are under arrest.”
For more information go see www.StopImpairedDriving.org.
This is the press release for this program with a few minor changes.
