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January 6, 2011The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office will hold its first traffic enforcement checkpoint of the New Year on Friday between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. in south Lafourche.
The checkpoint will be for seatbelts, while deputies will also be making sure children are also properly restrained.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said that the use of seatbelts is always important and he said it’s often the difference between life and death in a crash.
The first offense for driving without a seat belt for a driver is a $25 fine, including court costs. Second offenses carry a $50 fine, including court costs.
The last traffic enforcement checkpoint of 2010 was a DWI checkpoint, which occurred late Dec. 30 and the early morning hours of Dec. 31 and it yielded the following results:
• 278 Vehicles checked
• 1 adult charged for not wearing a seat belt
• 3 drivers charged with driving with a suspended driver’s license
• 3 drivers charged with having open containers of alcohol in their vehicles
• 1 adult charged for not having child properly restrained (a 4-year-old)
• 1 driver charged with second-offense DWI
• 2 drivers charged for having expired inspection stickers
In total, 514 drivers in Lafourche Parish were arrested for driving while impaired in 2010, compared to 297 such arrests in 2009.
