Governor Announces North Carolina DWI Crackdown

‘Operation Firecracker’ targets drunk driving in North Carolina over Fourth of July weekend.

Governor Mike Easley has announced ‘Operation Firecracker’, an effort to crack down on motorists driving while intoxicated in North Carolina during the Fourth of July weekend. Law enforcement agencies across the state will be conducting sobriety checkpoints and increasing roving patrols, looking for drunk drivers.

The governor said that the extended Fourth of July weekend is one of the deadliest for travel, and ‘Operation Firecracker’ is intended to make the highways safer. In 2007, there were 60 vehicle related fatalities over the Independence Day holiday, and 21 involved alcohol.

‘Operation Firecracker’ is part of the ‘Booze It & Lose It’ campaign, and it will be conducted between Friday, June 27 and Sunday July 6. During last year’s Fourth of July crackdown more than 6,173 patrols and checkpoints were held targeting drunk driving in North Carolina.

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