A drunk driving crackdown in late August yielded more than 260 arrests throughout Michigan — including 45 drivers with a blood alcohol content of .17 or higher, according to an Office of Highway Safety Planning, or OHSP, press release.
“Enforcement efforts like this save lives by putting extra officers on the road to stop and arrest impaired drivers and prevent other dangerous driving behaviors,” said Michael Prince, director of the OHSP in the press release.
There were eight traffic deaths during Labor Day weekend, according to Michigan State Police Criminal Justice Information Center. Alcohol was a factor in three crashes, one crash involved a bicyclist struck by a car and two other crashes involved unhelmeted motorcyclists.
The OHSP coordinated extra patrols in 26 counties, which was paid for with federal traffic safety funds, according to the release.
The crackdown also resulted in more than 4,000 seat belt and child restraint citations, more than 2,000 miscellaneous traffic citations, hundreds of speeding tickets and 43 felony arrests.
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