Pa. DUI Crackdown Planned For St. Patrick's Day Week: PennDOT

The St. Patrick's Day holiday is coming up. While you're planning your celebrations, be sure to also find your designated driver.

Southeast Pennsylvania DUI Task Forces are cracking down enforcement during the St. Patrick’s Day holiday week. The increased enforcement begins this weekend and goes through March 19.

Drivers in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties can expect additional sobriety checkpoints and roving DUI patrols, PennDOT announced Frdiay. The Southeast Pennsylvania DUI Task Forces are comprised of 70 municipal police departments in those five counties.

Pennsylvania’s legal alcohol limit is .08 for most drivers, .04 for commercial vehicles and .02 for school bus operators. "Responsible adults need to be aware alcohol content of what they are consuming," PennDOT said in a statement.

The operations are part of the Pennsylvania High Visibility Enforcement Program and is funded partly by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s statewide distribution of $4.6 million in federal funds from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).