California Drunk Driving DEATHS are UP #DUI #Checkpoints

Newsflash from your Hollywood Attorney:

Every holiday season people are reminded that drunk driving is dangerous, deadly and expensive. Law enforcement agencies toss out the number of people arrested last year or number of people who died in crashes involving drugs or alcohol.

It can get confusing very quickly when you start splicing up the numbers into cities, counties, alcohol-impaired versus alcohol-involved. But Chris Cochran at the California Office of Traffic Safety said the state’s DUI trends had been going down for years - but ticked up this year.

“From roughly 2005 through 2010, things were getting better across the board,” he said.

Statewide, the number of people who died in crashes caused by a drunk driver – had been on the decline during that time period. Here are the stats:

2005: 1,298

2006: 1,272

2007:  1,132

2008:  1,025  (7,450 victims)

2009:  924  (7,171 victims)

2010:  774  (6,511 victims - not all data is out at this time)

Office of Traffic Safety declared 2010 the year of the DUI checkpoint. It was in-your-face-anti-DUI campaigning.

2011:  774

2012: 802

“In the last couple of years there’s been a reversal,” Cochran said. “Things have turned around to the bad side…a little bit…a little bit.”

Cochran said state traffic safety officials like it when the number is below 800 and even better – drop every year, little by little.

Though statewide, there has been a slight increase (28 more fatalities because of drivers over the legal limit in 2012 than in 2011), Cochran thinks people are getting the message. It’s become uncool to drive drunk.

“We’re seeing many more instances of people using designated sober drivers willing and enthusiastically,” he said.  

"Be Cool Smart - Get A Driver"  a friend and/or someone in your party who hasn't been drinking.

Source... http://www.scpr.org

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