Aliso Viejo Car Accidents Reduced By Area Wide Sobriety Checkpoints

Nestled in the hills of South Orange County, California, Aliso Viejo boasts well-designed streets and intersections without the crushing traffic of many larger cities. Yet Aliso Viejo car accident attorneys will admit that car collisions often do take place in this newer city of 45,000 people.

Aliso Viejo Car Collision Statistics Down

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, statistics from 2001 to 2003 show that Aliso Viejo had just two fatal car collisions, This works out to 0.5 deadly Aliso Viejo car crashes per 10,000 people--far below the national norm. In 2006, The California Highway Patrol's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) showed that 51 people were injured in Aliso Viejo car accidents. Pedestrian vs. car collisions killed two and injured 13, and bicycle accidents injured eight. Drunk drivers caused four injuries.

Avoid the 38 Program Reduces DUI Car Crashes

To help reduce the number of car collisions in Aliso Viejo, DUI teams from the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) set their sights on a number of accident-prone areas within the city. Part of Orange County's Avoid the 38 Program, OCSD's Aliso Viejo effort set up sobriety checkpoints at specific streets where a high percentage of DUI related arrests and collisions took place. The goal was to cite and/or arrest impaired motorists who were driving a motor vehicle without a driver's license or who were intoxicated.

As in any city, impaired drivers are an ongoing threat to public safety that endangers motorists, pedestrians and cyclists. Statewide, nearly 200,000 drivers are arrested for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol annually. Most DUIs are male, while an increasing number of drunk drivers are female.

National DUI Car Accident Statistics Cause for Alarm

DUI statistics nationwide reveal even more tragic deaths and injuries. In 2006, 13,470 people were killed in drunk driving collisions--or an average of one alcohol-impaired-driving death every 39 minutes. That same year, 306 children age 14 and younger lost their lives in drunk driving crashes. Children riding in vehicles with motorists with a BAC level of 0.08 or higher made up 50 percent (153) of these deaths.

Most Aliso Viejo car collision lawyers acknowledge that impaired drivers must be removed from city streets and highways. These lawyers deal with the devastation drunk drivers cause every year in Aliso Viejo. Many support local law enforcement programs to prevent drunk drivers from causing car crashes in the city.

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