LAWRENCE COUNTY, Mo. — An area law enforcement agency shares results from “Saturation Saturday.”
According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), “Saturation Saturday” is a nationwide effort to prevent impaired driving. A press release by MADD claims that for the last eight years, numerous lives have been saved during one of the busiest travel periods of the year.
260+ law enforcement agencies across 16 states and Puerto Rico hosted Saturation Saturday events this year. Common ways authorities are doing their part include sobriety checkpoints, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says reduces drunk driving deaths by up to twenty percent. The CDC says that every day in the United States, 32 people lose their lives in crashes involving a drunk driver, roughly one every 45 minutes…