COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– The Colorado Division of Transportation, Colorado State Patrol, and native regulation enforcement businesses are coming collectively for the Summer season Blitz DUI Enforcement with the aim of eradicating impaired drivers from the highway.
There will likely be elevated regulation enforcement from Friday, June 11 by Monday, June 21. Final yr, 407 impaired drivers had been arrested throughout the identical enforcement interval.
There have been 20 impaired-driving fatalities in Colorado final June. Thus far this yr, 69 site visitors fatalities statewide have concerned an impaired driver, which is 31% of all site visitors deaths.
“That’s why it’s so vital to get on the market with our regulation enforcement and cease these folks earlier than they damage us,” stated Sam Cole with CDOT.
Through the latest Memorial Day DUI enforcement, 209 impaired drivers had been arrested. This can be a lower from final yr’s 232 arrests throughout the identical enforcement interval. The Colorado Springs Police Division (24 arrests), Denver Police Division (18 arrests), and the El Paso County’s Sheriff’s Workplace (16 arrests) recorded the very best variety of arrests throughout the enforcement. The Colorado State Patrol made 18 arrests.
Cole says he needs folks to recollect there’s all the time another.
“There are such a lot of methods to get round with out having to drive impaired. Rideshare packages, mass transit, we’ve associates who would fairly drive sober you may journey with them. Impaired driving is so extremely preventable,” he stated.
