Arkansas State Troopers will enforce a national campaign aimed at preventing motor accidents and related deaths beginning this weekend, through to January 1 next year.
Called “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over”, the campaign will actively look out for drivers who drive with blood alcohol concentration (BAC) that breach the legal threshold of .08%.
Quoting the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the report said that 29% of the motor vehicle crash fatalities in 2015 involved drivers who had BACs above the allowable legal limit. Further, 28% of the December fatalities in the same year were due to alcohol related accidents, the report said.
“This is a wonderful time of the year and we intend to do whatever we can to keep the highways and roads safe,” Col. Bill Bryant, director of the Arkansas State Police and the Governor’s Highway Safety Representative said, as quoted in the
Magnolia Reporter. “If you choose to drive drunk, not only will you risk your own safety and the safety of others, but you risk long lasting legal consequences.”
Drunk driving offenders lose their driver’s license, pay higher auto insurance rates, and pay for unexpected expenses such as attorney’s fees, court costs, vehicle repairs and lost wages from being away from their jobs.
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