Avoid Drunk Driving Accidents in Palm Beach County, Florida This Labor Day Weekend
Another Labor Day Weekend is just around the corner. Visitors will flock to Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and other South Florida hotspots to enjoy the last official break before fall kicks into gear. This means more Fla. residents and visitors will be relaxing with friends and family, taking advantage of the long holiday weekend. With any holiday comes increased traffic on Palm Beach County, Broward County, and Miami-Dade County highways, city streets, and beach roads -- as well as the danger of holiday celebrants drinking and driving.
As experienced West Palm Beach auto accident injury attorneys will attest -- drunk driving causes serious Florida car crashes that leave victims injured, paralyzed, and maimed. Drunken driving kills and changes lives forever.
While numbers of fatal drunk driving car crashes in Florida have been trending downwards (decreasing by 14 percent -- from 1,169 drunk driving deaths in 2008 to 1,004 drunken driving fatalities in 2009) -- even one fatality is one too many. (Source: Florida Traffic Safety Facts Oct. 2010, report compiled by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.)
One car crash death is everything if you're a spouse, parent, child, or other loved one of the person killed due to someone else's reckless, aggressive, or alcohol-impaired driving in Florida.
This Labor Day Weekend, the Florida Highway Patrol has announced that it will be out in force to stop Florida drunk drivers before they hurt or kill themselves or anyone else in Florida DUI traffic accidents. FHP officers will be patrolling Florida interstates in an effort to spot and pull over suspected drunk drivers. Florida Highway Patrol joins other law enforcement agencies across the U.S. in taking part in the national Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign, supported by NHTSA (the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).
Florida Motorists Asked to Report Drunk & Aggressive Drivers
Have you ever been driving on I-95 or some other roadway in Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade or elsewhere in South Florida -- and noticed someone driving erratically or recklessly? You could save a life by reporting an erratic driver in South Florida. Florida Highway Patrol is asking for the public's help over Labor Day weekend to apprehend aggressive and drunk drivers.
The public's assistance is sought in reporting erratic drivers who may in fact be driving under the influence of alcohol. To report an aggressive or erratic driver encountered on Florida roadways, motorists are asked to call *347 (*FHP) for help. The *347 program has been in effect since 1994 throughout Florida in hopes that Fla. motorists can assist law enforcement by reporting dangerous drivers. In addition, in Lee County and Palm Beach County, Florida, MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) has a program in place called Mobile Eyes Against Drunk Driving. If a Mobile-Eyes-911 call results in a DWI arrest, the caller receives a $100 reward.
Related Florida Accident Injury Attorney article:
Preventing Car Accidents in South Florida : Do You Report Erratic Drivers on the Road? (March 21, 2011)
Sources:
FHP plans holiday drunk-driving crackdown
Tampa Bay Online Aug. 19, 2011
FHP: Drive sober or get pulled over
Historic City News Aug. 22, 2011
