Full Notification

Summertime DUI Campaign Continues in the City with Increased Enforcement & Awareness

The Modesto Police Department will be conducting two DUI/Driver’s License checkpoints on Saturday, July 17 and Thursday, July 22 from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. at undisclosed locations within the City of Modesto. The department is continuing its efforts at lowering the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes locally and through the County’s Avoid DUI Task Force Campaign with these DUI/Driver’s License checkpoints. Personnel will be checking drivers to identify offenders and get them off the street, as well as heightening awareness to the dangers of impaired driving.

The summer months are a dangerous time of the year and your odds of being involved in an alcohol involved collision can be high. In 2008 law enforcement statewide reported that 7,801 people were injured or killed during the three summer months of June, July, and August.

A major component of the checkpoints, beyond taking dangerous drivers off the road, is to increase awareness of the consequences of impaired driving and to encourage using sober designated drivers. A DUI checkpoint is a proven effective method for achieving this goal. By publicizing these enforcement and education efforts, the Modesto Police Department believes motorists are deterred from drinking and driving.
Modesto Police Department will also be partnering in this summer’s Avoid the 12 - DUI Campaign where all law enforcement agencies will put additional officers out on checkpoints and DUI saturation patrols. Additional enforcement operations will occur during the end of August/Labor Day nationwide anti-DUI effort, Over the Limit, Under Arrest!

Law Enforcement encourages everyone to Report Drunk Drivers, Call 911! Funding for these operations is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.