by Timothy Rutt

Multiple Los Angeles County law enforcement agencies are involved in a holiday season crackdown on drunk drivers.

The campaign, called "Avoid the 100" for the number of agencies involved, arrested 456 individuals last weekend (December 14-16) for driving under the inflience of alcohol or drugs.  There were also two deaths of pedestrians who were struck by drivers allegedly driving under the influence during the same weekend.

There will be a California Highway Patrol DUI checkpoint set up in Altadena on Saturday, December 22.

All regularly scheduled traffic and patrol officers will focus efforts at stopping and arresting DUI drivers during their normal shifts. Multiple DUI/Driver’s License Checkpoints, Multi Agency DUI Task Force operations and local Roving DUI patrols are all part of this region-wide crackdown during the 19-day Winter Holiday Campaign. 

Police, Sheriff and the CHP encourage all motorists to help make your community safer: Report Drunk Drivers – Call 911! Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. DUI arrest data collection will continue through New Year’s Weekend, midnight Sunday, January 1, 2013.