{"id":100985,"date":"2018-03-16T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dui-enforcement-increases-for-st-patricks-day\/"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:50:46","slug":"dui-enforcement-increases-for-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dui-enforcement-increases-for-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI enforcement increases for St. Patrick\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that for many alcohol is a major component of this holiday, but we hope people will plan a sober ride home before they go out and make responsible choices before putting themselves and others in danger,\u201d Darrell Lingk, director of the CDOT\u2019s Office of Transportation Safety, said in a news release.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Heat Is On effort resulted in 607 arrests for impaired driving. Alcohol, marijuana and other drugs can all cause impairment.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople need to understand that even a single drink can impair your ability to drive and risk the safety of yourself and others,\u201d State Patrol Col. Matthew Packard said in a news release.<\/p>\n

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, during the 2016 St. Patrick\u2019s Day holiday period, 39 percent of nationwide motor vehicle crash fatalities involved drunken drivers.<\/p>\n

Motorists are encouraged to plan ahead for a safe ride home. The cost of a ride home is minimal compared to the cost of a DUI, which can total over $13,500 when considering fines and legal fees.<\/p>\n

The Heat Is On campaign runs throughout the year, with 14 specific high-visibility impaired-driving enforcement periods centered on national holidays and large public events. Enforcement periods can include sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and additional law enforcement on duty dedicated to impaired-driving enforcement.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit HeatIsOnColorado.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

du1-i-syn \u201cIt\u2019s no secret that for many alcohol is a major component of this holiday, but we hope people will plan a sober ride home before they go out and make responsible choices before putting themselves and others in danger,\u201d Darrell Lingk, director of the CDOT\u2019s Office of Transportation Safety, said in a news release. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[576,701,480,51],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-colorado-department-of-transportation","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-dui","tag-police"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100985"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}