| DUI Crackdowns Across the State |
| 11/26/2009 |
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| With some Thanksgiving dinners comes alcohol and there hasn`t been a fatal free Thanksgiving weekend in North Dakota since 2001. The North Dakota Highway Patrol is hoping to change that this weekend, despite an already high number of fatalities on the state`s roadways. Officers are working overtime this Thanksgiving weekend to watch out for impaired drivers. They`re also watching out to make sure people are wearing their seat belts. Sergeant Robert Kennedy says a lot of people killed in crashes this year weren`t buckled up. He hopes the extra enforcement effort will make a difference. "It can never hurt if you put more people on the road, you can have more contact with more travelers so the more contact you make, the greater the chance you have of taking an impaired driver off the road which makes everybody safer," Kennedy says. Kennedy says speed or alcohol were a contributing factor in most of the fatal crashes this year. |
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