Dexter Police Department’s Youth Alcohol Enforcement Campaign results

Dexter, Missouri -  Declaring Dexter’s participation in the States May/Youth Alcohol Enforcement Crackdown “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” substance–impaired driving crackdown.  Dexter Police reported 14 citations along with 39 warnings issued during the enforcement period, which ran from May 3 - 14, 2018. 

“Substance-Impaired driving is more than a reckless choice by a few individuals,” Chief Trevor Pulley. “Each year, impaired driving cost the lives of thousands on America’s highways. “There were 185 people killed and 592 seriously injured in 2017 Missouri traffic crashes that involved at least one substance-impaired driver (Alcohol and/or drugs). That works out to approximately one substance-impaired driving involved fatality every two days” 

A substance-impaired driver less than 21 years of age was involved in 51 of the fatalities and serious injury crashes.  Dexter Police joined forces with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and nearly 10,000 law enforcement agencies across the country in this year’s Youth Alcohol Enforcement “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. 

For more information, visit the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” Campaign headquarters at

www.TrafficSafetyMarketing.gov, or www.saveMOlives.com.