Saturation Patrols Sobriety Checkpoints

The You Drink & Drive, You LoseÓ campaign is a nat. impaired driving campaign intended to reduce impaired driving deaths to 11,000 by the year 2005. This Guide is is part of the Law Enforce. Action Kit issued as part of the campaign. Chapters: sample checkpoint evaluation questionnaire; sobriety checkpoint state case law summary; crime crash clock; sample Town Hall meeting agenda; proclamation & letter of support; nat. partners; allied org.; state highway safety offices; media interview Q&A's; timeline for planning a checkpoint or patrol; timeline for promoting & publicizing your effort; Town Hall meeting timeline; plus sample news release, drop-in news article, & radio scripts.

Alcohol-impaired driving is an important health and social issue as it remains a major risk to Americans' health today, surpassing deaths per year of certain cancers, HIV/AIDS, and drownings, among others, and contributing to long-term disabilities from head and spinal injuries. Progress has been made over the past decades towards reducing these trends, but that progress has been incremental and has stagnated more recently. Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities examines which interventions (programs, systems, and policies) are most promising to prevent injuries and death from alcohol-impaired driving, the barriers to action and approaches to overcome them, and which interventions need to be changed or adopted. This report makes broad-reaching recommendations that will serve as a blueprint for the nation to accelerate the progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalities.