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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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In an April 4, 2008 Minneapolis Star Tribune article entitled "Crackdown on Drunken Drivers Leads to 167 Arrests in March," Tim Harlow outlines the substantial increase (63 more) in the number of Twin Cities DWI citations issued relative to the same period in 2007.  Law enforcement specifically targeted the 15 Minnesota counties in which the most DWI citations are issued. According to Harlow, "From 2004 to 2006, those counties - Anoka, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Cass, Crow Wing, Dakota, Hennepin, Olmsted, Ramsey, Rice, St. Louis, Sherburne, Stearns, Washington and Wright - accounted for more than half of the state's 272 alcohol-related deaths and 762 serious injury accidents."  Read the Minneapolis Star Tribune Article in Full.

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