Adams County Sheriff's Department, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today)
HASTINGS — Adams County Sheriff’s Department will be participating in this campaign from Aug. 16 through Sept. 2, which includes the Labor Day holiday weekend, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be working alongside local law enforcement for the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over high-visibility enforcement campaign.
The goal is to deter impaired driving and prevent the tragedies seen in previous Labor Day weekends from happening again.
“We want our community members to understand that it is our priority to keep people safe, so we are asking everyone to plan if they know they will be out drinking “The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign is an awareness effort to get the message out that drunk driving is illegal and it takes lives. Let us make this a partnership between law enforcement and drivers: Help us protect the community and put an end to this senseless behavior.”
Drivers should be safe during this Labor Day holiday by planning if they intend to drink. They should not wait until after drinking to plan how to get home. Impairment clouds a person’s judgment.
