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As you celebrate this holiday season at festive parties filled with family, friends, and fun,

please keep in mind that San Diego Law Enforcement is cracking down on DUIs to help save lives! “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” is the task force campaign being launched by law enforcement from 15 agencies. They will be watching over the local roadways to apprehend drunk drivers drivers in an effort to save lives.

The San Diego County DUI Avoid the 15 Task Force says they will be aggressively looking for impaired drivers. Party-goers please be aware, extra patrols are out there and anyone caught driving under the influence will be arrested. This holiday enforcement crackdown will begin December 14 and it will run through January 1. According to The Village News, law enforcement efforts will include:

San Diego police held a driving under the influence or DUI checkpoint Saturday night in the 2100 block of El Cajon Blvd. along with their usual DUI patrols in the North Park and Hillcrest areas to net more DUI drivers. At the DUI checkpoint, 404 vehicles were inspected by San Diego Police searching for valid drivers licenses, DMV registration, and proof of insurance. Of the 404 vehicles inspected 13 were pulled over into secondary inspection for further investigation of the driver’s sobriety. A total of seven DUI arrests were made of these 13 drivers.

The DUI patrols also arrested eight additional drivers for driving while under the influence of alcohol and or drugs. The night resulted in a total of 16 arrests with 15 of the vehicles being impounded. Two of the 404 drivers stopped by the checkpoint were cited for driving with an expired drivers license.

Sadly on Saturday morning Bryan Larman, 28, died from a drunk driving collision in the Linda Vista area. Officers reported that Mr. Larman lost control of his vehicle, a white Mitsubishi, as he attempted to pass a slower moving vehicle. Crossing into the wrong side of the road he collided with a Nissan Frontier carrying four passengers, two of which were children. The passengers in the Frontiers were hospitalized suffering moderate to major injures. No more details have been released on the condition of the passengers or the extent of their injures.

Oceanside Police Officials have stated that there will be a DUI checkpoint somewhere in Oceanside today Friday July 15th, 2011. The DUI and drivers license checkpoint location has not been released due to security reasons. However, we know that it is scheduled to take place from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. This checkpoint is intended to prevent drunken drivers from being on the road and to provide overall road safety.

Article can be found:
OCEANSIDE: DUI checkpoint set for Friday, North County Times

Apple Inc. has decided that it will reject any new iPhone applications that have the intention of helping “drunk drivers” to avoid DUI checkpoints. This decision was made after receiving pressure from four U.S. senators. Senators Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Frank Lautenberg and Tom Udall began urging Apple, Google and Blackberry to remove such applications from their respective stores and prevent any new applications from being created and published. Arguing that these applications were helping drunk drivers avoid DUI checkpoints making the road a more dangerous place.

Blackberry developers, a Canadian based firm, agreed to comply in March, when senators first started their campaign. Apple and Google both initially refused. But after several months Apple has decided to update their App store policy to include that no iPhone application can provide the location of any DUI checkpoint to the user.

Apple has refused however, to remove any existing applications that warn drivers of DUI checkpoints. Arguing that they need to give their users a chance to remake or update their application due to the new rules in place. Many applications inform drivers of not just DUI checkpoints but of speed traps, red light cameras, school zones, speed bumps, railroad tracks and other road signals. Removing the information regard the DUI checkpoints will allow these app developers to keep their application on the App store. Failure to comply results in the removal of your app from the App store.

Escondido Law Enforcement Agencies have announced today that they will be holding a DUI and driver license checkpoint. The checkpoint is to take place from 6 p.m. Saturday to midnight.

Officers will be looking for drivers would are driving under the influence of alcohol, and those who do not have a valid drivers license. You can also expect Officers to ask standard questions about having valid licenses, valid registration, and valid insurance.

The location of the checkpoint hasn’t been released so drive safely, and always have a designated driver. Other tips can be found on my website here.

Memorial weekend is one of the biggest weekends for DUI checkpoints and DUI and Drunk Driving arrests in California. This year, San Diego County police departments arrested 129 people on the suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol (DUI’s). The arrests were made by 14 different San Diego County Law Enforcement agencies between Friday, May 27th, and Saturday, May 28th. Different police methods were used to apprehend the drunk drivers but the most effective method were the DUI checkpoints.

Checkpoints were held across the County in various cities including Escondido, Oceanside, Chula Vista, Coronado and several other cities in San Diego. One such DUI checkpoint was near the toll booth of Coronado Bridge. Here five people were arrested for suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol, one driver had a previous DUI conviction. Officers from Chula Vista, Coronado, and San Diego maned the checkpoint stopping at least 750 vehicles. Twelve vehicles were impounded because drivers did not have a valid drivers license.

The California Highway Patrol did not conduct any DUI checkpoints but still had 51 arrests of suspected drunk drivers. These arrests all happened in a twelve hour period between 6 p.m. Saturday, May 28th, and 6 a.m. Sunday, May 29th. This number has increased by 25 since Memorial weekend last year.

For this memorial day weekend several North County cities have scheduled DUI checkpoints. Oceanside and San Marcos Police Departments have announced and confirmed checkpoints during this weekend.

San Marcos DUI checkpoint is scheduled to begin around 7 p.m. Friday and last until 3a.m. Saturday morning. The checkpoint is going to run on San Elijo Road but the exact location is unknown.

Oceanside Police Department have scheduled their DUI checkpoint Sunday night starting at 8 p.m. to Monday at 3 a.m. Their goal is to reduce the number of drunken drivers on the road and prevent any accidents.

From Friday night to early Saturday morning Poway Police Officers enforced a DUI and a driver safety checkpoint, located in the 16700 block of Espola Road. This DUI checkpoint resulted in the arrest of seven people, four of which were suspected of driving while under the influence of alcohol. In addition, two other arrests were made for driving while under the influence by patrol units close to the checkpoint.

Along with these DUI arrests Officers issued several traffic citations including, possession of marijuana, driving without a valid driver’s license, driving without a license in possession, driving without current vehicle registration, and driving without proof of insurance.

Out of the 1,055 vehicles that passed through the DUI and safety checkpoint 18 drivers were either cited or arrested by Poway Officers. 28 of the 1,055 vehicles were pulled to a secondary stop to undergo further inspection.