Representatives from the Governor Highway Safety Office, Tennessee Highway Patrol, the Clarksville Police Department and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office will be joining forces this weekend to conduct DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols this weekend.

In the Clarksville-Montgomery County area, officers this weekend will be on high alert and will crack down on drunk driving as part of the Governor Highway Safety Office’s “More Cops, More Stops” public safety campaign.

For residents who plan on celebrating St. Patrick’s Day weekend by consuming alcohol, police recommend individuals to select a designated driver.

According to statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, over 700 people were killed in the United States from 2006 to 2010 in crashes involving drunk drivers during Saint Patrick’s Day and in 2010, over 10,000 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes.
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(03/14/2013/MF)