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Don’t let this happen to you: Drive sober this holiday weekend

Don’t let this happen to you: Drive sober this holiday weekend

The Houston Police Department has warned  that its officers will be out  in force this holiday weekend. The goal is to help ensure public safety by getting drunken drivers off the road.

In recent years, many Texas law enforcement agencies have stepped up officer presence on holidays in an effort to deter drunk driving. Our Houston car accident injury attorneys emphasize that no refusal weekends have become the norm for major holidays. So if you are arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, you can almost certainly look forward to having your blood tested for alcohol content.

Yet stepped up enforcement and stronger DWI penalties in recent years don’t seem to have deterred Houston drivers. Harris County still leads the nation in the number of drunken drivers. And this holiday weekend kicked off with two suspected drunken drivers driving right into HPD patrols.

Around midnight on Thursday, one driver suspected of intoxication crashed right into an HPD officer on patrol. The officer was turning onto the Gulf Freeway frontage road from Park Place when a driver ran a red light and smacked into the patrol car. The man failed a field sobriety test, and was arrested on suspicion of DWI. (Field sobriety test #1: Avoid crashing into law enforcement vehicles.)

A second HPD officer responding to that crash was then almost hit by another driver. That driver was also arrested on suspicion of DWI. (khou.com, 5/23/14)

For your safety and the safety of others, we remind you to drive sober this holiday weekend and always. But for those who do drink and drive, the Houston car accident injury attorneys at Denena Points, PC ask that you please continue to make yourselves conspicuous to the HPD so that they can remove you from the roads more quickly. Fewer drunken drivers on our roads mean fewer needless injuries and deaths.

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