DUI Enforcement Operations Planned this Weekend
San Bernardino, CA – Officers from the San Bernardino Police Department’s DUI Enforcement Team will be deploying this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the Department’s on going traffic safety
campaign. DUI Saturation Patrols will deploy on Friday, April 17th and Saturday, April 18th, between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests.
“We will continue to do our part in finding and prosecuting impaired drivers in order to make our streets a safer place,” said San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan PD. “This is a ‘Zero Tolerance’ crackdown so Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over!”
After falling dramatically for five straight years, figures for 2012 show an increase to 802 deaths because someone failed to designate a sober driver. Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have claimed 12 lives and resulted in 2,151 injury crashes harming 3,008 of our friends and neighbors in the City of San Bernardino.
DUI can impact the economy in addition to the pain and suffering of those immediately affected. Conservatively, a fatality has a $1.4 million impact, an injury $70,000, and a crash that only damages property averages nearly $9000.
Funding for this program is from a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Report Drunk Drivers, Call 911.