{"id":3248,"date":"2020-11-25T17:21:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2020-12-14T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T17:25:05","slug":"michigans-drive-sober-holiday-campaign-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3248","title":{"rendered":"Michigan’s Drive Sober holiday campaign has begun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Troopers on the Monroe Submit of the Michigan State Police have joined legislation enforcement officers throughout Michigan with the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over marketing campaign.<\/p>\n

Troopers on the Monroe Submit of the Michigan State Police have joined legislation enforcement officers all through Michigan in launching the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over marketing campaign that started Friday.<\/p>\n

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To guard lives each earlier than and through the Christmas and New Yr\u2019s holidays, there will likely be elevated patrols on Monroe County roads from Dec. 11 to Jan. 1, with zero tolerance for individuals who drive impaired, stated Lt. James Jarrett, assistant submit commander at Monroe.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we have additional patrols scheduled,\u201d Jarrett confirmed Friday. \u201cWe\u2019ll goal drunken and impaired drivers. Will probably be a bit completely different this 12 months with no packed bars or in-person eating (attributable to COVID-19 and state restrictions). We\u2019ll see how this works.\u201d<\/p>\n

The submit has participated within the marketing campaign for nearly 20 years, he stated.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt has been efficient,\u201d he famous. \u201cWe take quite a lot of impaired drivers off the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drunk driving is lethal and unlawful, stated Michael L. Prince, Workplace of Freeway Security Planning (OHSP) director.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting behind the wheel of a car after you\u2019ve been ingesting endangers you, your passengers and everybody else on the street,\u201d Prince stated. \u201cEven when your journey plans are completely different this 12 months, and also you\u2019re simply making brief journeys close to residence, at all times drive sober.\u201d<\/p>\n

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All through 2019, there have been 9,787 alcohol-involved crashes in Michigan with 295 alcohol-involved fatalities statewide, he stated.<\/p>\n

December has been proclaimed as Impaired Driving Prevention Month in Michigan to recollect those that misplaced their lives attributable to impaired driving and to remind residents that stopping impaired driving deaths and accidents is each driver\u2019s duty.<\/p>\n

In keeping with the 2019 Michigan Annual Drunk Driving Audit by the Michigan State Police, about 42 p.c of all deadly crashes that occurred concerned alcohol, medication or each. The Nationwide Affiliation of Drug Court docket Professionals acknowledges December as one of the vital harmful months due to a rise in impaired driving.<\/p>\n

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The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over marketing campaign is supported with federal visitors security funds supplied by the U.S. Division of Transportation and the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration and coordinated by the OHSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troopers on the Monroe Submit of the Michigan State Police have joined legislation enforcement officers throughout Michigan with…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nMichigan's Drive Sober holiday campaign has begun - Lansing Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3248\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michigan's Drive Sober holiday campaign has begun - 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