Deputies to Swarm South County with DUI Patrols

Submitted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department

Deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s DUI Task Force will be deploying this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the department’s ongoing traffic safety campaign. DUI Saturation Patrols will deploy on Friday, August 14th at 7:00 p.m. and continue until Saturday, August 15th at 3:00 a.m. in the cities of Dana Point, San Clemente, and San Juan Capistrano.

“This is a ‘Zero Tolerance’ crackdown so ‘Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over!’” said Sergeant Ray Wert from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Traffic Bureau.

After falling dramatically for five straight years, figures for 2012 show an increase to 802 deaths because someone failed to designate a sober driver. Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions in areas contracted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department have claimed 21 lives and resulted in 497 injuries of our friends and neighbors.