Checkpoint Strikeforce
The Checkpoint Strikeforce
campaign of the
District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia (along with
the mid-Atlantic
states of Delaware, Pennsylvania
and West Virginia) is a highly
focused, zero tolerance, continuous, state-to-state effort
to bust drunk drivers and bust them good.
Every week from July 4, 2011 through January 2, 2012,
DUI checkpoints will be conducted by law enforcement officials
on designated roadways throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
In addition, and as a means of supporting this unprecedented
public safety effort, the Washington
Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) is coordinating a more
than three-quarters of a million dollar
public education
campaign
in DC, MD and
VA.
Checkpoint Stikeforce is the impaired driving mobilization
campaign for NHTSA Region 3. NHTSA's national impaired driving
mobilization campaign is Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.
For more information, visit the new Checkpoint Strikeforce website — http://www.checkpointstrikeforce.net/
Governor McDonnell Launches Statewide Crackdown to Reduce Alcohol-Related Incidents
(September 1, 2011) RICHMOND – Governor Bob McDonnell today kicked-off Virginia's 10th annual Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign – a statewide law enforcement and public awareness effort to detect and deter impaired drivers in the Commonwealth.
As part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's regional campaign, the Governor announced that drunk drivers on Virginia roadways will face the likelihood of arrest because state and local law enforcement officials are increasingly conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols effective now through the end of the calendar year.
Since the inception of Virginia's Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign in 2002, alcohol-related traffic fatalities in the state have decreased by over 23-percent while alcohol-related traffic injuries in the Commonwealth have decreased by over 32-percent. In 2010, fewer individuals (274) were killed on Virginia highways due to alcohol than in any year since at least 1997 (302). The Governor credited this progress to the combination of effective public education and targeted enforcement. Read more... |
