Minnesota DWI Crackdown: More Than 2,600 Cited Last Month

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Jason C. Brown

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that 2,655 people were cited for drunk driving in Minnesota last month. The relevant article by Paul Walsh claims that the average blood alcohol content of impaired drivers that were arrested and charged was .14, nearly twice the legal limit.

Walsh points out that enhanced DWI patrols with continue through 2009 in the most critical areas of the state for drunk driving offenses, including Anoka County, Hennepin County, Dakota County, Sherburne County, Wright County and Washington County. From 2005 through 2007, 533 motorists have been killed by drunk drivers on Minnesota roads, 1,200 serious injuries were sustained as the result of a drunk driver and more than 117,000 (nearly twice the capacity of the Metrodome) were arrested for driving drunk.

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