For over five years, we have worked with the Illinois Department of Transportation in an effort to reduce the number of impaired drives on the roads in St. Clair County.
Once again we have been approved for a Local Alcohol Program (LAP) grant. LAP is designed to produce a significant impact on a local community’s impaired driving problem. Project activities may include local task force formation, DUI enforcement, public information and education, prosecution and adjudication.
Drunk driving is one of America’s deadliest crimes. In 2005 in America, nearly 17,000 people died in highway crashes involving alcohol – 39 percent of all motor vehicle crash fatalities.
Here in Illinois, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 580 people lost their lives in alcohol-involved crashes, which is 43 percent of all rashes. That is why we have joined hundreds of other law enforcement and highway safety agencies across Illinois in an effort to crackdown on impaired driving.
Our message is simple. No matter what you drive—a passenger car, pickup, sport utility vehicle or motorcycle—if we catch you driving impaired, we will arrest you. No exceptions. No excuses. We will be out in force to get drunk drivers off the road—and save lives that might otherwise be lost.”
We will keep you updated each month right here on our site. We'll also be maping all of our DUI arrests in the DUI page.
Photos of our last Roadside Safety Checkpoint
Read the DUI Factbook.
IDOT Traffic Safety
