December will be a very bad month to drink and drive in Florida. The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) plans a month-long crackdown on drunk driving around the state to reduce the number of deaths this holiday season. The state effort coincides with the Nationwide Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month.
Florida Accident Statistics
FHP wants to have a better holiday season in the state than last year when 32 people died on Florida roads due to alcohol-related crashes over the New Year’s holiday travel period. During the four-day Christmas holiday in 2010, 24 people died on our roads with eight of those crashes alcohol-related. Accidents involving drug use went from 1,090 fatalities in 2009 down to 1,063 in 2010.
The strong presence of law enforcement tends to have a positive effect on reducing roadway deaths, particularly when troopers are ready to conduct field sobriety tests. However the field tests are voluntary and some experts contend that the test results are unreliable. In Flori [...]
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