Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Crystal Lake Police Department is urging drivers to celebrate safely this Memorial Day holiday.
If you're planning on celebrating Memorial Day weekend with any type of alcoholic beverages, make pre-arrangements now for a designated driver or taxi cab ride. The Crystal Lake Police Department will be on the streets from now through Memorial Day during the overnight hours cracking down on drunken drivers and motorists not wearing seat belts. The Crystal Lake Police have begun the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over/Click It or Ticket” crackdown for the Memorial Day holiday. The intensified enforcement effort against drunk drivers and seat belt law violators underscores the disproportionate number of traffic deaths caused by alcohol consumption and failure to buckle up, said Crystal Lake Police Cmdr. Dan Dziewior in a press release. The …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Crystal Lake Police conducted the safe driving campaign from March 14-17, 2013.
Crystal Lake Police stopped 68 motorists and issued 73 citations during a St. Patrick's Day crackdown aimed at saving lives. The police department participated in the Illinois Department of Transportation’s (IDOT) Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program conducted for the holiday called “Drive to Survive." Law enforcement agencies throughout Illinois participated in this statewide effort from March 14-17, with the goal of saving lives by encouraging motorists to refrain from drinking and driving, and to buckle up during late-night hours, Crystal Lake Police Cmdr. Dan Dziewior said. During this period, the Crystal Lake Police participated in three separate enforcement campaigns to increase safety on our community’s roadways. Police Issued the…
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Police announce plans for "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" and "Click It or Ticket" enforcement efforts for this weekend.
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Wednesday, March 13
The Crystal Lake Police Department is urging drivers to celebrate St. Patrick's Day weekend. The police department announced plans for the 2013 “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over/Click It or Ticket” crackdown for this St. Patrick’s Day weekend. The intensified enforcement effort against drunken drivers and seat belt law violators underscores the disproportionate number of traffic deaths caused by alcohol consumption and failure to buckle up, Police Cmdr. Dan Dziewior said. The stepped-up enforcement will begin March 14 and run through St. Patrick’s Day. Enforcement efforts will focus on the nighttime hours between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. According to data from the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the National Highway Traffic Safety…
Monday, January 7, 2013
Crackdown was funded by federal traffic safety funds through the IDOT Division of Traffic Safety.
The Crystal Lake Police Department's holiday safe-driving crackdown resulted in 67 traffic citations and six arrests. The department conducted the Christmas holiday "Drive to Survive" enforcement campaign from Dec. 17, 2012 through Jan. 1, 2013, in an effort to save lives, Staff Sgt. Dan Hulata said in a press release. The effort was part of a statewide program aimed at saving lives by encouraging drivers to refrain from drinking and driving, and to buckle their seat belts. During the crackdown, police focused on the hours of 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. During the two-week period, Crystal Lake Police participated in three separate enforcement campaigns to increase safety on the community’s roadways, Hulata said in the release. Police issued the …
Sunday, December 30, 2012
If you insist on driving after a few drinks, here's what you should know about how alcohol affects your system—and your criminal record
Do you know how many drinks you can have before you're in danger of being busted for drunken driving? When police pull over drivers for suspected drunken driving, officers ask them to perform field sobriety tests and to take a breath test to measure blood alcohol content. A BAC test measures the percentage of alcohol present in a person's bloodstream. The legal limit in Illinois is 0.08. According to the Virginia Tech Alcohol Abuse Prevention website, every 40 minutes, 0.01 percent of alcohol leaves your system. The limit for people under 21 is 0.02. But any alcohol consumption will get you charged if you're underage. These charts show—in general—how many drinks it takes to become too impaired to drive. They're not exact, and they don…
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Police start safe driving, and seat belt enforcement crackdown.
If a little bubbly is part of your holiday celebrating, beware of getting behind the wheel your car. The Crystal Lake Police Department has begun its 2012 "Drive Sober, or Get Pulled Over" holiday crackdown and will intensify enforcement against drunken drivers through New Year's Eve, according to Police Staff Sgt. Dan Hulata. Patrol officers also is conducting its "Click It, or Ticket" crackdown for drivers not wearing seat belts. The intensified enforcement effort against drunk drivers and seat belt law violators underscores the disproportionate number of traffic deaths caused by alcohol and failure to buckle up, Hulata said in a press release. The police department's enforcement efforts will concentrate on the nighttime hours between …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Crystal Lake Police Department participated in IDOT's traffic enforcement program aimed at saving lives.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Crystal Lake Police Department stopped 75 motorists for traffic violations and issued 93 citations during a two-week Thanksgiving holiday crackdown aimed at saving lives, according to Staff Sgt. Dan Hulata. More than 200 law enforcement agencies in Illinois participated in the Illinois Department of Transportation's "Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program." The statewide effort was implemented from Nov. 12 to 25, with the goal of saving lives by encouraging drivers to refrain from drinking and driving - and to buckle their seat belts during late-night hours, Hulata said in a press release. The Crystal Lake Police Department participated in three separate enforcement campaigns to increase safety on the community’s roadways, Hulata said…
Michael Baxter
11:11 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
I was informed by a cop that they are told by their supervisor to write more tickets to generate income for the station. I am all for getting drunk drivers off the streets but I have never seen any study that could prove that "safety stops" save lives. Also, these cameras that automatically send you a ticket ($100) for rolling a stop sign are ridiculous, Are they saving lives too ? more ›