This Holiday Season make sure your loved ones get a holiday hug and not a sympathy hug

This Holiday Season make sure your loved ones get a holiday hug and not a sympathy hug.  It’s terrible how a fatal crash impacts a family.  From 2013 to 2017, there were (4,110) drunk driving related deaths in the month of December.  In 2018 during Christmas and New Years Eve (285) people died in drunk driving related fatalities in the U.S.

Remember operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicating substance is illegal in Hawaiʻi.  If you use an intoxicant it impairs your thinking, reasoning, and muscle coordination.  Drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana, using illicit drugs, or using some medications can put you and others in serious danger.  If you consume any of these, don’t drive.

This weekend Officers from the Hawaiʻi Police Department will be searching for drivers who are under the influence.  When they are located they will be stopped and they will be arrested.  You have been warned.  Drive Sober or get pulled over.