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.”
Pictures from our last Roadside Safety Checkpoint
Read the DUI Factbook.
IDOT Traffic Safety
The map below will show our DUI arrests for the 2009 Grant period, October 2008 through September 2009.The map below will show our DUI arrests for the 2008 Grant period, November 2007 through September 2008.
Click the flags on the map to see the details of each arrest.
On 05-30-08 at 1630 hours we conducted a Roadside Safety Checkpoint (50th at Bond, Alorton).
v 2 (DUI) Driving while under the influence
v 9 Suspended/revoked driver’s license
v 4 Possession of controlled substance
v 1 Possession of firearm
v 7 Illegal transportation of alcohol
v 10 non-moving citations
v 17 failure to wear seat belt
v 15 Child Restraint
v 30 No insurance
v 15 Warrants (4 felonies)
v 18 total people taken to jail
v 7 total vehicles towed as a result of arrests
: The entire operation was cancelled early (2230 hours) due to a severe thunder and hail storm.
