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Police agencies throughout the Midwest completed a first-of-its-kind multi-state, multi-jurisdictional impaired driving crackdown Thursday night, making 10 DUI/DWI arrests in the course of eight hours. Preliminary arrest data from the four-state effort included 10 DUIs and DWIs and 12 open intoxicants in vehicles, according to a press release from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The effort, called Reducing Auto Crashes through Corridor Enforcement, featured high-visibility enforcement activity by multiple law enforcement agencies along a specific corridor, according to the release.
The effort took place on US Highway 41 from 7 p.m. Thursday through 3 a.m. Friday. State, county and local law enforcement agencies from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin participated, according to the release.
The primary focus was to arrest impaired drives, but unbelted motorists, speeders and other violators were cited or ticketed, the release said.
There were 255 speeding, 92 seatbelt and three reckless driving citations. In addition, there were three felony arrests, nine motorists apprehended for arrest warrants, four drug violations, 39 drivers without licenses and 19 drivers without insurance (Illinois only), according to the release.
US 41, which runs about 800 miles from the upper UP in Michigan, through Wisconsin, into Illinois, then straight through Indiana had been identified as “an enforcement priority due to the volume of crashes and subsequent injuries that have resulted,” Michael Witter, Midwest Regional Administrator for NHTSA, said.
The RACCE initiative was conducted in conjunction with the 2009 “Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest.” impaired driving crackdown, the release said.
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