The California Highway Patrol is set to initiate a Maximum Enforcement Period (MEP) throughout the state looking to stop impaired drivers during Labor Day Weekend
“We’re putting as many officers on the road as we can. DUI is our number one most preventable crime. There is no reason to be driving under the influence with rideshares like Uber and Lyft. But people continue to do it,” said Officer Kylie Musselman.
Labor Day Weekend is notoriously deadly on the roads for impaired drivers. 38 people were killed in crashes throughout California during last year’s holiday weekend, according to the CHP. During the enforcement period last year, the CHP made 1,064 DUI arrests.
Although they’ll add an extra emphasis to their mission of keeping DUI drivers off the roads this weekend, Musselman says doing that daily is what prompted her to follow in her family’s footsteps and join CHP.
“Officer Camilleri was out of the Hayward CHP office. He died on December 24th, 2017, because he got hit by a DUI driver while he was working. I will never forget Christmas Eve seeing that on the news. It was that moment that I decided I was going to be a CHP officer,” she said.