In recent years, California has seen a disturbing increase in drug-impaired driving crashes. The Escondido Police Department supports the new effort from the Office of Traffic Safety that aims to educate all drivers that “DUI Doesn’t Just Mean Booze.” If you take prescription drugs, particularly those with a driving or operating machinery warning on the label, you might be impaired enough to get a DUI. Marijuana can also be impairing, especially in combination with alcohol or other drugs, and can result in a DUI.
Escondido PD will be conducting additional DUI/Drivers License Checkpoints and DUI Saturation Patrols on an ongoing basis. Escondido PD is committed to take suspected impaired drivers off our streets and highways, ultimately lowering the risk for deaths and injuries.