PROGRAMS

Impaired Driving

Impaired Driving Program Objectives and Activities

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for persons 1 to 34 years of age.  Impaired driving is the leading cause of traffic deaths in Washington.

As identified in Washington's Strategic Highway Safety Plan: Target Zero, impaired driving is a top priority for Washington and a top priority for the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.

The Impaired Driving Program funds impaired driving projects with the following objectives:

Foster Leadership to Facilitate Impaired Driving System
Improvements

Enforce DUI Laws

Prosecute, Impose Sanctions On and Treat DUI Offenders

Control High BAC and Repeat Offenders

Reduce Excess Drinking and Underage Drinking

Foster Leadership to Facilitate Impaired Driving System Improvements

• Washington Impaired Driving Advisory Council

Enforce DUI Laws

• X52 - Extra Patrols Every Week to Target Speeding and Impaired Motorists On Washington Roads
• Drive Hammered Get Nailed August Crackdown, August 14 to Sept 7, 2009
• Washington State Patrol Impaired Driving Enforcement Support
• Mobile Impaired Driving Unit
• DUI Aerial Response Team
• Yakima Sober Streets
• Drug Recognition Expert Training Program
• SeaTac Drug Recognition in High School Program

Prosecute, Impose Sanctions On and Treat DUI Offenders

• Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor
• Judicial Education Project
• Evaluation of DUI Assessments Project

Control High BAC and Repeat Offenders

• Thurston County DUI Court
• Grant County DUI Court
• Ignition Interlock Compliance and Recidivism Study

Reduce Excess Drinking and Underage Drinking

• Pierce County Party Intervention Patrols
• Responsible Liquor Sales Training
• Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention