The Garland Police Department stepped up its Driving White Intoxicated patrols in an effort to keep Garland citizens and visitors safe during the Labor Day Holiday. The increased DWI enforcement resulted in 25 arrests and 82 citations.
During the enforcement period, GPD’s regular patrols made 18 DWI arrests. The additional enforcement for the same eighteen 18 day period resulted in 189 traffic stops and six more DWI arrests bringing the total of impaired driving related arrests to 24.
Officers working the grant also made one additional arrest for an offense unrelated to impaired driving.
The additional enforcement was paid for by a state-funded grant, the Impaired Driving Mobilization grant, from TxDOT.
The Garland Police Department would like to thank TxDOT for their assistance in allowing officers to keep the city streets safe during the Labor Day Holiday.
Alarming DWI, DUI statistics:
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- In 2017, 1,147 children 14 and younger were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes.
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- Of those 1,147 fatalities, 220 (19 percent) occurred in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes. Out of those 220 deaths, 118 (54 percent) were occupants of vehicles with drivers who had BACs of .08 or higher and another 29 children (13 percent) were pedestrians or pedal-cyclists struck by drivers with BACs of .08 or higher. 71 (32 percent) were occupants of other vehicles, and 2 (1 percent) were drivers.
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- In 2017, 9 percent of all drivers involved in fatal crashes during the day were drunk, compared to 32 percent at night.
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- Almost twice as many alcohol-related traffic fatalities occurred during weekends compared to weekdays.
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- Every day, 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This is one death every 50 minutes.
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- In 2016, 10,497 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 28 percent of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.
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- In 2016, more than 1 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. That’s 1 percent of the 111 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year.
Sources: https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
and https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/812630