With time winding down on the Holiday DUI Task Force’s operations, the statewide crackdown on drunken driving continued with another 182 arrests on Saturday.
Since the Thanksgiving weekend, the task force has posted more than 2,500 arrests. Monday - New Year’s Eve - is the last night.
On Saturday officers made 14 arrests for aggravated DUI, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety said.
A drunken-driving offense is considered aggravated when the motorist has two previous DUI offenses in the last seven years, if the motorist has a suspended, canceled or revoked license or when there is a passenger younger than 15 in the vehicle.
More than one-quarter of Saturday’s arrests were classified extreme, with blood-alcohol content levels exceeding 0.15. Of all arrestees, the average BAC was 0.142.
Of the task force’s 2,522 total DUI arrests, 780 have been for extreme DUI.
While arresting DUI offenders is great, I would like to know how many innocent drivers were pulled over and not charged?
I have been pulled over late at night for such inane reasons as……not having my flasher on when turning right from a right turn only lane……making a wide right turn onto a three lane road…….not signaling a lane change…….having a radar detector on my windshield (it needs to be on the dash or in the corner of the windshield, it’s blocking my view?).
Not once had I had a single drink, was weaving or driving “funny” or have I ever had any DUI infraction.
The police see these violations thousands of times each day and they don’t pull anyone over for those, when the sun is shining? Why not?