Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over

by Aug 27, 2024Idealease, News, Safety, Truck Driver Safety

The 2024 national enforcement mobilization “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” went into effect across the country on August 16 and will conclude on September 2, 2024. Impaired driving, one of the deadliest and most frequently committed—yet preventable—crimes, has become a serious safety epidemic in our country.

  • During the 2022 Labor Day holiday (6 p.m. September 2-5:59 a.m. September 6), there were 490 crash fatalities nationwide. 
  • Of these 490 traffic crash fatalities, 39% (190) involved a drunk driver, and a quarter (25%) involved drivers who were driving with a BAC almost twice the legal limit (.15+ BAC). 
  • Among drivers between the ages of 18 and 34 who were killed in crashes over the Labor Day holiday in 2022, 47% of those drivers were drunk, with BACs of .08 or higher.