Crime & Safety

Suisun City Cops Putting Extra Effort into DUI Enforcement This Weekend

Suisun City officers working to keep drunk drivers off the road.

Officers from the Suisun City Police Department’s DUI Enforcement Team will be deploying this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the Department’s ongoing traffic safety campaign.  DUI Saturation Patrols will deploy over the Fourth of July Holiday weekend in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests.

In California, this deadly crime led to 791 deaths in 2010 because someone failed to designate a sober driver.  After falling dramatically for five straight years, preliminary figures for 2011 indicate an increase in fatalities.  Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have claimed 2 lives and resulted in 21 injury crashes harming 31 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 $9000.

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“Despite the recent increases, California’s roadways are still very much safer than they were before 2006,” said OTS Director Christopher J. Murphy.  “The Suisun City Police Department will be keeping the pressure on through enforcement and public awareness so that we can continue saving lives and reach the vision we all share – Toward zero deaths, every 1 counts.” 

 

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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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