Originally Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2010
As you're out on the roads, you might notice a few more cop cars. That's because extra patrols are on the highways to make sure we're driving safely. It's part of the latest Operation Pullover blitz, which uses federal money to conduct sobriety checkpoints and saturate patrols to look for impaired drivers. Neil Moore is the Executive Director of the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute and says March, with St. Patrick's Day and basketball, can be a time for celebrations involving alcohol. Last year in March alone, 41 people died in traffic crashes in Indiana. 24-percent of those deaths involved a driver who was intoxicated.
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