TORRINGTON – The Torrington Police Department, Goshen County Sheriff’s Office, Wyoming Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies statewide will be out in force this weekend to curb drunk driving on Wyoming’s roads and highways.
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TORRINGTON – The Torrington Police Department, Goshen County Sheriff’s Office, Wyoming Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies statewide will be out in force this weekend to curb drunk driving on Wyoming’s roads and highways.
The TPD will be increasing its presence on the roads for an Impaired Driving Enforcement Operation. According to TPD Chief Matt Johnson, the goal is ensuring a celebratory occasion doesn’t become a sad one.
“Anytime we have a significant holiday weekend like that, you know there’s certainly more of a propensity for those types of things to happen,” he said. “And oftentimes, that transitions from a time when we should be celebrating together as families and as communities, and as a country, into a time of a lot of sadness. That’s really what we want to avoid. You know, this has already been a challenging time for our community and our state and our country, and you know folks are going to need to celebrate and we want them to celebrate and we want them to celebrate responsibly, so that we can keep it a time of celebration, as opposed to having tragedies that take people away from our community.”
According to data from the National Highway Safety Administration, drunk driving accounted for 10,500 deaths in 2018 – that’s 29% of all motor vehicle deaths. That trend tends to spike around July 4 – 193 died in drunk driving crashes during the July 4 weekend in 2018.