The ‘Zero Tolerance’ crackdown so Drive Sober or
Get Pulled Over!” campaign
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Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – Deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s (OCSD) DUI Task Force will be deploying this weekend
to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the department’s ongoing
traffic safety campaign, according to the OCSD.
DUI
Saturation Patrols will deploy on Friday, April 8th at 7:00
p.m. and continue until Saturday, April 9th at 3:00 a.m. in the
cities of Mission Viejo, Lake Forest and Rancho Santa
Margarita.
“This is a ‘Zero
Tolerance’ crackdown so Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over!” said Deputy Manuel
Cruz from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Traffic Bureau.
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 in areas contracted by the Orange County
Sheriff’s Department have claimed 21 lives and resulted in 497 injuries of our
friends and neighbors.
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 $9,000.
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!
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