The Ottawa Police Department joins over 190 law enforcement agencies in the annual traffic enforcement campaign, known as, you drink, you drive, you lose. A crackdown aimed at removing drunk and drugged drivers. The program began yesterday and will run through labor day, September 2nd. Kansas Department of transportation representative Chris Bortz says, “People need to think before they drink.”
In 2017, alcohol was involved in 40% of the traffic deaths in Kansas. Ottawa Police say the risk of death in an alcohol-related crash is almost 15 times that of the crash where impairment was not involved. Ottawa Police will be out in full force this morning, enforcing traffic laws around all schools.
