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DUI Enforcement Operations Planned this Weekend

Chula Vista, CA - Officers from the Chula Vista Police Department’s DUI Enforcement Unit 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 this weekend between the hours of 1800 and 0300 in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and/or arrests.

“This is a ‘Zero Tolerance’ crackdown so Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over!”

After falling dramatically for five straight years, figures for 2012 show an increase to 802 deaths because someone failed to designate a sober driver. Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have claimed 13 lives and resulted in 174 injury crashes harming 277 of our friends and neighbors. In 2014 the Chula Vista Police Department has made 91 arrests for DUI. 23 community members have been victims in a DUI related collision and 3 people have died due to a DUI related collision.

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.

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!