The Geary County Sheriff’s Department will join almost 190 other local and state police agencies across Kansas in a crackdown August 15th through Labor Day, September 2nd, aimed at removing drunk and other drugged drivers from the roadways. You Drink, You Drive, You Lose, is underwritten by the Kansas Department of Transportation.
According to KDOT, alcohol and other drugs are implicated in 40% of the crash deaths on Kansas roads.
This enforcement campaign is intended to remind drivers of several things:
- If you’re going to drink alcohol away from home, do it responsibly by lining up a designated driver before you leave.
- Check your medications for driving warnings.
- Think of a family you know – maybe your own – and consider how it would be to wake up every day to the memory of your decision to drive after ingesting something which unintentionally brought injury or death to one of them.
- A DUI arrest can cost you thousands of dollars and, in the case of alcohol, will result in the installation of an ignition interlock device in your vehicle.
- All citizens on the roadways are being asked to watch for suspicious driving behaviors.
- Authorities will enforce impaired driving and other traffic laws, not just during the enforcement campaign but all through the year.
- Always remember that your best protection against an impaired driver is the use of seat belts and appropriate child restraints on all trips.