LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Michigan State Police will be enforcing their Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over drunk driving crackdown over the holiday season.
Increased drunk driving enforcement patrols will be out in every county across Michigan between November 22 and December 10. According to MSP, iIn 2016, 416 people died in Michigan as a result of alcohol and/or drug-involved traffic crashes. During the same year, 2,986 (31 percent) of drivers in alcohol-involved crashes were between the ages of 25-34 and 2,279 (23.7 percent) were 24 or younger.
The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) launched www.michigan.gov/360 to encourage planning ahead before activities involving alcohol consumption. Michael L. Prince, director of the OHSP. says they are encouraging everyone to pause and do a 360-degree assessment of how they plan to get home safely–before they begin to drink. He says before you leave for a night out, consider these questions: How will you get there? How will you get home? Who is coming along?
On average, more than 10,000 people died nationwide every year in drunk-driving crashes from 2006-2015. One person is killed in a drunk-driving crash every 51 minutes in the United States.
