DUI Task Force Deploys in Surrounding Cities

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DUI enforcement planned tonight

Deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s DUI Task Force will deploy this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the department’s ongoing traffic safety campaign. DUI saturation patrols will deploy tonight at 7 p.m. and continue through 3 a.m. Saturday in Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel and Laguna Woods.

After falling dramatically for five straight years, the latest statewide figures show an increase to 802 deaths in California because someone failed to designate a sober driver. Over 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.

A DUI can have economic impacts in addition to the pain and suffering of those immediately affected. Conservatively, a fatality costs $1.4 million, an injury $70,000 and a crash that only damages property averages nearly $9,000.

Report drunk drivers by calling 9-1-1.

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