Drunk Drivers Target Of Zero Tolerance Campaign

The annual crackdown on drunk drivers leading to the July 4th holiday begins tonight. Even though it’s still two weeks away from the Independence Day weekend, state and local law enforcement will be spread across Georgia’s roads for Operation Zero Tolerance. More than 500 police agencies in the state will target traffic violators in general. But Bob Dallas with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety says the particular focus is on drunk driving:

"The ones with DUI—trained officers, as well as those that work with them...are working inter-jurisdictionally. What they do is look at their data, they look where crashes have occurred in the past, those over-represented by DUI’s, and they try to focus their attention in those areas."

Dallas says an average 300 people die on Georgia’s roads yearly as a result of wrecks involving impaired drivers.

Operation Zero Tolerance gears-up at 9pm tonight, running through July 5th.

DUI crackdown in effect

A DUI crackdown is scheduled for the next two weeks. Law enforcement officials are increasing patrols and sobriety check points across the state to catch drunk drivers.

The crackdown is part of the Governor’s office of Highway Safety's Operation Zero Tolerance campaign held in conjunction with Fourth of July—one of the deadliest periods on US roads.

Also in effect July 1^st—the state’s new DUI law where a fourth DUI results in a felony charge.