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On August 10th at 2pm, members of the Evansville – Vanderburgh County Traffic Safety Partnership (TSP) will hold a news conference to kick off Blitz 91 – Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over. This event will be held at the Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office with the support of Coroner Steve Lockyear. Invited attendees include members of the Indiana State Police, Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office, and the Evansville Police Department along with Coroner Lockyear and a doctor from the Deaconess Trauma Team. Sheriff Dave Wedding will speak on behalf of the TSP and our efforts during this blitz period.

The annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement campaign includes the Labor Day weekend, with thousands upon thousands of Hoosier families taking to their cars for end-of-summer barbecues, football games, lakes and pool parties. Sadly, it is also one of the deadliest times of year for impaired-driving deaths. It is our goal by holding our new conference at the Coroner’s Office to drive home the consequences of impaired driving.

During the DUI blitz the Evansville-Vanderburgh County Traffic Safety Partnership will conduct sobriety checkpoints in an effort to detect and deter impaired drivers (thereby reducing the occurrence of alcohol and drug related traffic crashes). Funding for saturation patrols and local sobriety checkpoint operations is provided by the ICJI through a grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).