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Holiday Alcohol Task Force Enforcement Continues – Week Four

For Immediate Release: Monday, December 9, 2019

The Holiday Alcohol Task Force officers have been devoting their full time and attention to detecting alcohol-related offenses this holiday season.

During this past week’s enforcement (December 4 to December 8), task force officers arrested 42 people for driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs (DUI).**

During the past four weeks of the Holiday Alcohol Task Force, task force officers have arrested 149 people for DUI.**

**It should be noted that the above arrests include only those arrests made by task force officers and do not include the additional arrests made by patrol officers in the performance of their duties.  Therefore, the overall number of DUI arrests made by officers during this time period is higher.

Also, during this time an impaired driver struck a 6^th District officer’s marked patrol car while the officer was responding,  with lights and siren activated, to a robbery.  This incident is summarized below:

On Sunday, December 8 at approximately 4:25 p.m., a 6^th District officer was responding in a marked patrol car with lights and siren activated to the report of a robbery that had just occurred in Montgomery Village.  The patrol vehicle, which was traveling eastbound on Montgomery Village Avenue and slowed as it approached the intersection of Frederick Road (Rt. 355).  Vehicles in the first two lanes of northbound traffic on Frederick Road stopped so that the officer’s vehicle could proceed through the intersection.  A 2003 Honda Accord which was traveling in lane three of northbound Frederick Road at Montgomery Village Avenue, failed to slow and yield to the police car as it proceeded through the intersection with lights and siren still activated.  The Honda struck the front end of the police car and then struck an additional vehicle at the intersection.   The officer, a 29-year-veteran of the department, was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.  The driver of the third vehicle involved in this collision was not injured.  The 32-year-old female driver of the Honda Accord was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.  She was subsequently charged with several traffic offenses to include DUI.

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Release ID: 19-495
Media Contact: Rick Goodale 
Categories: impaired-driving