Police will be deploying this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers in the department’s ongoing traffic safety campaign.
DUI saturation patrols will also deploy earlier than usual Friday, April 20, between 4:20 p.m. and 3 a.m. in areas with high frequencies of DUI collisions and or arrests.
This date is associated by many as a “national holiday for cannabis culture,” police Lt. Tim Kleiser said in a statement.
Theories about the holiday’s origin are about as numerous as there are strains of cannabis at the typical pot dispensary.
Police say that researchers who examined 25 years worth of data found a 12% increase in the relative risk of a fatal traffic crash after 4:20 p.m. on April 20 compared with identical time intervals on control days. For teen drivers, the risk is even higher.
Officers will be looking for signs of alcohol and or drug impairment, now nearly twice as prevalent among drivers than alcohol impairment. Of the drugs, marijuana was most prevalent, at 7.4 percent, slightly more than alcohol, Kleiser said.
The cost of a cab ride home is cheap compared to the $10,000 in expenses from a DUI, he said.
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