Four Motorists Charged With DUI During Enforcement Project

During a drunken driving enforcement project, which ran from August 15 through September 1, police charged four motorists with driving under the influence, according to Sergeant Douglas Wisentaner.

During that period, town police conducted roving patrols seeking out intoxicated motorists. In those patrols, 92 motorists were stopped, with police issuing 12 infractions to them, as well as 86 warnings, the sergeant said this week.

Besides the roving patrols, police held a sobriety checkpoint on the night of Friday, August 29, on Dodgingtown Road (Route 302) in Dodgingtown Center.

At that checkpoint, police arrested one local man on a charge of driving under the influence. (See police reports).

Police also issued four infractions and made 19 warnings at the checkpoint, Sgt Wisentaner said.

It was the third sobriety checkpoint which police held this summer.

Police departments across the state took part in the heightened DUI enforcement program as part of a nationwide project to get intoxicated motorists off the roads. The program’s motto is “Drunk Driving — Over The Limit, Under Arrest.”

In 2006, approximately 13,500 people in the United States died in motor vehicle accidents in which a driver was intoxicated, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. About one-third of US motor vehicle accident fatalities occur in collisions in which an intoxicated motorist is driving.