With an increase in impaired drivers expected throughout the state this weekend, state police will be conducting saturation patrols at each of the 23 barracks focusing on impaired, aggressive and distracted driving. Enforcement this weekend, beginning on Thursday evening and through Sunday will be bolstered by impaired driving saturation patrol funds from the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Highway Safety Office.
Initiatives will include saturation patrols in areas known to have a higher number of DUI crashes or arrests and sobriety checkpoints, which are also conducted in locations where experience indicates they are most appropriate. Additional troopers will be assigned as needed. From May 4-6, 2018, troopers made 119 DUI arrests, 35 criminal arrests and 20 controlled dangerous substance arrests while also issuing 861 speeding citations, 88 seat belt citations and 2,257 citations for other violations.
The State Police Impaired Driving Reduction Effort Team, otherwise known as the SPIDRE team, will also be out in full force this weekend. Since its inception in May 2013 through April 27, 2019, the SPIDRE team has made 2,995 DUI arrests, 138 criminal arrests and 9,109 traffic stops while also issuing 20,240 citations and 4,505 warnings. The goal of the SPIDRE team is to focus on reducing alcohol related crashes in Maryland by targeting areas across the state with high crash rates involving impaired drivers.
Every year more than 160 lives are lost and thousands more are injured in Maryland in crashes involving impaired drivers, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation. Please don’t drink and drive this weekend.
If you are attending a Cinco de Mayo gathering:
- Designate your sober driver in advance and give that person your car keys.
- If you’re planning on driving, avoid drinking.
- Consider using public transportation, call a taxi or use a ride-share service if you don’t have a sober driver.
- Don’t let a friend drive if you think they are impaired.
- If you see someone who you believe is driving impaired, call police.
- Always buckle up.
- Don’t text, use a cellphone that is not hands-free or drive distracted.
- Remember, you can be held liable if someone you served alcohol to ends up in an impaired-driving crash.
- Serve plenty of food and non-alcoholic beverages
- Ensure sober drivers or alternative modes of transportation are set up in advance for guest who are planning to drink alcoholic beverages.
- Have contact information for local taxi companies readily available.
- Take away the keys from anyone who is thinking of driving impaired.
12 comments:
I don't drink tequilla,so I'm OK.
They are worried about everybody drinking. They need to worry about getting their own house in order. Wasn’t Captain Brent Black arrested for DUI a few months ago. Hypocrites.
They can stick the safety crap up their arse. If they were concerned with your safety they would be in Annapolis fighting for fair carry laws. It's about $$$$$
no worries
President Trump will have ICE deport them all
The state police are under Larry's world , don't blame them , blame Hogan.
If they really cared about safety, they would PREVENT people from getting In the car when they're impaired.
Like, have a breathalyzer in every bar.
I've seen cops sit nearby waiting for people to drive after leaving the bar. So, they are more interested in catching NOT preventing.
for sure
they get promoted by catching and busting working folks...
just another way the government taxes people
State Police are an extension of the IRS...
think I'm joking....go to court....you are convicted prior to the case being heard....
it sucks....Democrats did away with due process decades ago
I'm an American. I will celebrate American holidays. I certainly don't need find an excuse to drink so badly that I will celebrate a Mexican holiday.
Who promotes drinking to celebrate a Mexican holiday. Do bars have no decency or patriotism? What is it? Do they just find and promote ANY reason to spend money at the bar. Cinqo de Mayo is just a college drinking excuse for binge drinkers. Heck, college students don't even need an excuse to binge drink. That's what they have the Frat's for.
And if your illegal, do not worry. The judge will just tell you to come back at a later date, knowing you will not show up. To keep it out of the public eye proving illegals ARE a problem. Laws are for Americans.
@ May 6, 2019 at 11:18 AM. Exactly, why would any American want to celebrate a holiday here in America, that they don't even celebrate in Mexico? It IS NOT a Mexican holiday anyhow. I guess the alcoholics always want an excuse. Like the Sun coming up, or the Sun going down.
@ May 5,, 2019 at 12;49 AM. Got that right. My sister and her husband were friends with a member of the Md, State Police who would come to their house and drink like a fish and get running drunk and drive home. But when he was sober, they said he was all cop. Stopping and arresting people for the same thing he was doing.
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