To curb impaired driving during the holiday season, the Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado State Patrol and local law enforcement agencies will combine efforts to conduct The Heat Is On Holiday DUI enforcement from Dec. 4 to Dec. 14.
Each year in Colorado, more than 20,000 people are arrested for DUI – that’s an average of 55 DUIs every day. In 2019, 171 people died in impairment-related crashes on Colorado roads, accounting for nearly one-third of Colorado’s traffic deaths.
Enforcement can include sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and additional law enforcement on duty dedicated to impaired driving enforcement.
To review local law enforcement agency plans, visit www.codot.gov/safety/traffic-safety-reporting-portal.
