Citizens are warned that until Labor Day the Coffeyville Police Department will join almost 190 other local and state police agencies across Kansas in a crackdown aimed at removing drunk and other drugged drivers from the roadways. According to KDOT, alcohol and other drugs are implicated in 40% of the crash deaths on Kansas roads. Over the past five years the average proportion of fatality crashes attributable to such impairments was 23%, or almost one-fourth of all fatality crashes.

The agency also reports that crashes involving at least one impaired driver are likely to be more severe than are other crashes.