RIVERSIDE – Two separate law enforcement campaigns to nab drunken and drug-impaired drivers during the holidays will wrap up tonight.
The California Highway Patrol’s New Year’s “maximum enforcement period” got underway Thursday night, when all available officers deployed to catch DUI suspects, speeders and other traffic violators.
On Dec. 18, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department and more than two-dozen other municipal police agencies began an end-of-year crackdown to snare intoxicated motorists, using sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols.
The effort was previously known as “Avoid the 30” for the number of participating agencies, but that designation was phased out when the California Office of Traffic Safety’s grant terms changed in 2014.
During the CHP’s 2015 New Year’s maximum enforcement campaign, more than 1,100 people were arrested on suspicion of DUI statewide. Thirteen motorists and passengers died in collisions on roads under the CHP’s jurisdiction.
According to the agency, seven victims were not wearing seatbelts.
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