NEWS RELEASE

STATE OF MICHIGAN

The busy Labor Day holiday is fast-approaching as Michiganders make plans for fun outdoor activities and late-summer road trips. Sadly, the holiday weekend is also one of the deadliest times of the year in terms of impaired-driving fatalities.

Over the Labor Day holiday weekends from 2019 to 2023, there were a total of 44 driver fatalities in traffic crashes in Michigan. In those crashes, 43.2 percent of the drivers killed were alcohol- and/or drug-impaired.

From August 15 through September 1, there will be increased enforcement and messaging about the dangers of driving impaired as part of the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” (DSOGPO) campaign.

Police agencies participating in the upcoming DSOGPO enforcement period and all other traffic safety partners

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