Drunken Driving Targeted in 13 Minnesota Counties

The Department of Public Safety calls the most dangerous for impaired driving will be targeted over the Thanksgiving weekend with extra DWI patrols and continuing all the way through September 2011. The most common deadly period for traffic accidents are estimated to be Wednesday through Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. There have been 16 deaths in the last three years with 6 that were alcohol-related. The counties that had the highest total of alcohol-related deaths and serious injuries during 2007 to 2009 were; Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Itasca, Olmsted, Ramsey,   Rice, St.Louis, Scott, Stearns, Washington and Wright. It is sad to see peoples lives taken away from someone else being an idiot and drinking too much alcohol. I think it should be mandatory for people at the bar to   manage people  and make sure they have a ride home! My uncle was killed riding his motorcycle, while being hit by a drunken driver. The driver said that he saw my uncle but couldn't stop his   truck  and so was hoping he wouldn't hit my uncle  because he had to get his girlfriends turtle to the creek.