Rohnert Park Advisory: Extra DUI Enforcement this weekend

Via the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety:

Officers from the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety DUI Enforcement Team will be deploying this weekend to stop and arrest impaired drivers in the department’s ongoing traffic safety campaign. DUI saturation patrols will deploy on Saturday in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and or arrests. 

"Our goal is to keep the community safe," said Sergeant Aaron Johnson from the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety. Some drivers do not realize their perception and reaction time can be greatly increased after drinking one or two alcoholic beverages. This may be the difference between avoiding a collision and a fatality. We hope drivers either arrange for a ride or call a cab if they are impaired."

In 2010, over 10,000 people were killed nationally in motor vehicle traffic crashes that involved at least one driver or motorcycle rider with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 percent or higher. In California, this deadly crime led to 791 deaths because someone failed to designate a sober driver. Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have resulted in 15 injury crashes harming 20 of our friends and neighbors in Rohnert Park. 

“RUOK?” is the text message version of the often heard question, “Are you okay to drive?” If you have to ask someone the question, you already know the answer,” said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS). “You know they have had too much to drink or are showing signs of being “buzzed.” You know that they are not okay to drive. Asking the question doesn’t relieve you of the responsibility. Call them a cab, take them home yourself, offer your couch.”