Doylestown Police Part Of Roving DUI Patrol Wednesday

Roving DUI patrols are planned Wednesday night in Bucks County.

Ten Bucks County Police Departments will be participating in the DUI patrol along the Street Road corridor, according to an announcement from the Bucks County District Attorney's office.

Officers from Bensalem, Doylestown, Lower Southampton, Middletown, Newtown, Upper Southampton, Warminster, Warrington and Warwick Townships, as well as Newtown Borough, will be out on that roadway looking for impaired drivers from 10 p.m. Thanksgiving Eve until 3 a.m. Thanksgiving Day.

The patrol is funded with grant money from PennDOT and will cover Street Road and its feeder streets from Bensalem to Warrington, with the Bensalem and Warminster Township Police Departments serving as booking centers.

“Thanksgiving is a great time to celebrate our blessings with family and friends,” Bucks County District Attorney Matthew D. Weintraub said. “Please celebrate responsibly. Be safe: don’t drink or do drugs and drive.”

This year’s Thanksgiving travel volume is expected to be the highest in 12 years, according to AAA, which predicts that nearly 51 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home during the holiday period. That includes more than 600,000 people from the five-county Philadelphia, most of them traveling by car, the District Attorney's office said.

“We can all make it to the table this Thanksgiving by joining together to make sure everyone is driving safe and sober,” said C. Stephen Erni, executive director of the PA DUI Association. “Simply put, if every motorist drives sober or makes a plan to get home safely and buckles up for every ride, we create a safer driving experience for all motorists.”