Stepped Up DUI Enforcement Planned for Tonight

3/17/2015



March 17, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are sometimes accompanied by excessive drinking.



Tonight the DUI Unit will be complemented by a four-member team of extra-duty officers being paid through a grant from the Governor’s Highway Safety Office. They will be specifically looking for impaired, aggressive, distracted and/or speeding motorists.



Last year, nine persons were arrested in Nashville for DUI between 7 p.m. March 17th and 6 a.m. March 18th.



The best ways for those drinking at parties and celebrations tonight to avoid a trip to jail are to appoint a designated driver or take advantage of Sheriff Daron Hall’s Sober Ride Program. Pick-up locations will include the Gulch at 11th Avenue and Pine Street and a location in Midtown at Division Street and Lyle Avenue. Last year, DCSO’s 85 volunteers took nearly 300 people home. The program operates from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. in Davidson County only and reservations are not accepted.

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