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DPS Troopers aren’t just looking for drunk drivers around Christmas and New Year’s.
“They’ll be looking for speeders, drunk drivers, people who are not wearing their safety belts and people who are driving aggressively.”
That’s Lisa Block, spokeswoman for Texas DPS. She says extra patrol units will be on the roads starting tomorrow, going through the weekend and then again on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
“This time of year people are in a rush. They’re possibly tired; they’re trying to get to their destination. Plus there’s just a large amount of drivers on the road. So we really ramp up the number of troopers that we have in order to stop the people who are driving dangerously.”
Last year over the Christmas and New Year holiday, Texas troopers issued 28,000 citations and 14,000 warnings.
DPS officials says statistics indicate tickets and drunk driving arrests double during the holiday enforcement periods.
Laurie Johnson. KUHF-Houston Public Radio News.
