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Campaign Totals for North Carolina 2012 Christmas Holidays thru New Years

RALEIGH —Governor’s Highway Safety Program Director Becky Wallace announced today that state and local law enforcement officers cited 3,147 motorists for driving while impaired during the Holiday “Booze It & Lose It” campaign, which ran Dec. 7 – Jan. 2. A total of 110,692 traffic and criminal citations were issued statewide.
“These numbers show how the efforts of dedicated law enforcement officers across the state are making our roads safe,” Wallace said.
During the GHSP campaign, officers statewide conducted 13,445 sobriety checkpoints and dedicated patrols. Counties with the highest number of DWI citations were Guilford (257), Wake (246) and Forsyth (191).
Officers also issued 6,381 safety belt and 1,134 child passenger safety violations, 30,364 speeding violations and 3,543 drug charges. In addition, they apprehended 3,009 fugitives from justice and recovered 184 stolen vehicles.
For more information regarding county-by-county citation totals or other “Booze It & Lose It” activities, visit the GHSP website.

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From Governor’s Highway Safety Program offer to law enforcement agencies:
The Governor’s Highway Safety Program’s point system encourages participation at GHSP sponsored events and highway safety initiatives….MORE
Attend the Charlotte St. Pat’s Day parade and festival and if you drink, arrange for a designated driver, but if you don’t, your arrest will help North Carolina law officers win points towards new equipment to assist them in locking you up again on your next arrest….

Hi DWIHitParade;
I live in North Carolina and stumbled upon your blog trying to find a picture of a knucklehead named Brian Hieb.  He is the moron who killed Sandra Campbell while he was driving drunk.  The accident happened near where I used to live, so it caught my attention.  It is too bad that this piece of trash was not locked up after he got arrested last year for, you guessed it, DUI.  Because he was out awaiting trial, he was able to do the exact same thing again, except this time he killed someone while he escaped with no life-threatening injuries.
Anyway, just wanted to say great job on the blog.  Sometimes, it seems that some form of public shame for these idiots is about all the discomfort they will have to experience, unfortunately.
Anthony

From WBTV.com:
GASTON COUNTY, NC (WBTV) – The highway patrol says two drunk drivers caused a wreck in Gaston County Friday night which killed one of the drivers and sent five people, including four children, to area hospitals.   The wreck happened just before 7 p.m. on Tryon Courthouse Road near Cherryville.    According to the Lt. Trooper J.J. Letcavage with the N.C. Highway Patrol, David Cleary, 29, of Lawndale, was drunk when he hit another driver who was also drunk. …MORE

From MyFox8.com:
Around 2 a.m., Sgt. Stacey Thompson attempted to stop the driver of a 1986 Ford traveling west on South Church St. Police said Thompson suspected the driver was driving while impaired.