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Police Looking for Drunk Drivers Over the Holiday Season
Posted on Dec 19, 2008
In Amherst County, deputies are patrolling for impaired drivers during the holiday season and a checkpoint is planned soon for the county.
Seven people were arrested by deputies on suspicion of drunken driving on the weekend of December 6 and December 7. According to Amherst sheriff’s Lt. Greg Turner, the arrests were an unusually high number.
Deputies were working under the auspices of the Central Virginia Highway Traffic Safety Board this last weekend, which is a consortium of law enforcement agencies Lynchburg and Amherst, Bedford, Campbell, Charlotte, Pittsylvania and Prince Edward counties.
Thirty-two police officers from nine law enforcement departments were scheduled last Saturday night to staff a checkpoint on U.S. 29 in Campbell County. Amherst deputies have also been working with the Lynchburg Police Department to perform checkpoints to catch drunk drivers. They will be asking for motorists’ driver’s licenses and determining if they have been drinking.
According to Turner, Amherst deputies will be working over the New Year’s weekend to detect and stop impaired drivers.
Virginia State Police will also be increasing enforcement during this holiday season. During two days in November, a state police enforcement discovered 21 suspected drunken drivers on Interstate 81 and Interstate 95.
In 2007, there were 11,215 alcohol-related accidents in Virginia. As a result, 7,130 people were injured and 378 died. That same year, there were 28,787 DUI convictions. The average blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was 0.1407 among the drivers. Virginia has strict penalties for those who are found guilty of DUI or DWI. According to Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Legislation passed by the Virginia General Assembly, effective July 1, 1982, changed the law concerning DUI charges. Those people found guilty
and convicted of DUI could not have their charges reduced -- regardless of whether they were referred or not referred to VASAP, it remained on their records.”
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