SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — “If you do drink, please make sure to stay at home,” Sgt. Justin Lloyd with Springfield Police says, before heading into a meeting.
That meeting is for a massive, statewide saturation event to get drunk drivers off the road.
“Every 85 seconds, somebody in the United States is impacted by an impaired driving crash means it’s either a fatality or it’s a serious injury,” Tabitha Perkins, with MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) said.
Perkins says the annual event is important to have.
“The reason behind Saturation Saturday is to have one evening where there is complete high visibility of officers on the roads focused solely on impaired driving, to send the message to all of the residents of Missouri, as well as the entire nation, that impaired driving has to end,” Perkins said.
The full article is available at ozarksfirst.com.
(Story by Parker Padgett, ozarksfirst.com)
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