- Campaign Highlights Nationwide Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Efforts
ALBUQUERQUE — Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) volunteers and employees will team up with law enforcement patrols throughout the nation on August 27 for the fourth nationwide “Saturation Saturday.”
The occasion consists of the Rio Rancho Police Department.
The digital and in-person occasions spotlight impaired driving prevention efforts by law enforcement in the course of the annual (*27*) Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” marketing campaign, which launched Aug. 17 and continues by Labor Day. NHTSA’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” marketing campaign, lengthy supported by MADD, helps fund elevated impaired driving enforcement, sobriety checkpoints and anti-drunk driving promoting throughout one of many busiest journey durations of the yr. According to current NHTSA estimates for 2021, greater than 12,000 individuals had been killed in drunk driving crashes – the worst yr since 2007.
“Hazardous driving behaviors have increased over the past two years amounting to more alcohol-related deaths and injuries on our roads,” mentioned MADD (*27*) President Alex Otte. “As we head into one of the busiest weeks on the road and the long Labor Day weekend, MADD joins our law enforcement partners in urging everyone to plan ahead before the first drink. Designate an unimpaired driver, utilize rideshare or call a taxi. There is never an excuse to drive drunk.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sobriety checkpoints cut back drunk driving deaths by 20%. Saturation Saturday occasions will embody checkpoints, elevated DUI patrols (referred to as Saturation Patrols) and different enforcement efforts aimed toward stopping impaired driving and stopping those that make the unsuitable alternative. MADD employees and volunteers in New Mexico will take part in law enforcement roll calls, checkpoints and different help actions to bolster the lifesaving significance of those site visitors security enforcement initiatives.
“We know that at the end of summertime, people go to parties and celebrate with their loved ones. Therefore, it is critical for them to have a plan, and that plan should be to designate a non-drinking driver to get them home safely,” mentioned Bert Parnall, MADD New Mexico advisory board member. “The message of high visibility law enforcement traffic initiatives like Saturation Saturday is to not only stop drunk drivers, but also to publicize to would-be drunk drivers that if they choose to drive, they will be caught.”
Support for equitable and simply high-visibility site visitors security enforcement is without doubt one of the key components of MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving, launched in 2006. MADD advocates for funding for NHTSA’s Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over occasions, which happen yearly in August and December, and Click It or Ticket in May. The different components of MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving embody passing legal guidelines to require ignition interlocks for all drunk driving offenders, help for superior impaired driving prevention expertise in all new autos and taking private duty by utilizing rideshare, public transportation, taxi or designating a non-drinking good friend or member of the family each time plans embody alcohol.
Participating Law Enforcement businesses for New Mexico Saturation Saturday 2022 embody: Lea County Sherriff’s Office, NM State Police, Pueblo of Pojoaque Police Department, Deming Police Department, Taos County Sheriff’s Office, Albuquerque Police Department, Roswell Police Department, Bosque Farms Police Department, Santa Rosa Police Department, Hagerman Police Department, Rio Rancho Police Department, Cibola County Sheriff’s Office, Milan Police Department and Ramah Navajo Police Department. Agencies listed shall be internet hosting both a Sobriety Checkpoint, or a Saturation Patrol, on Saturday, August 27th.
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