PRESS RELEASES

December 9, 2025

CONTACT: Chief Deputy Scott Hahn, Union County Sheriff’s Office and the Snyder-Union

Coordinator for the North Central Regional DUI Enforcement Program 570-491-4700

Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over:

Deterring Drunk Driving

This Winter Holiday Season

Lewisburg, PA -  From December 10, 2025, through January 1, 2026, the U.S. Department of

Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Snyder & Union County

Police will step up efforts to stop impaired driving and protect road users’ safety in alignment

with the winter holiday high-visibility enforcement campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.

Like other festive seasons, the winter holidays are a time of year when many alcohol-impaired-

driving fatalities occur. In the combined Decembers of 2019-2023, 4,931 road users were killed

in traffic crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver. In December 2023 alone, there were

1,038 alcohol-impaired-driving fatalities, 697 of which involved a driver with a blood alcohol

concentration of .15 g/dL or higher — nearly twice the legal limit in almost every state. “Not

only is driving impaired illegal, it is dangerous and never acceptable,” said Chief Deputy Scott

Hahn, Union County Sheriff’s Office and the Snyder-Union Coordinator for the North Central

Regional DUI Enforcement Program. “Our law enforcement officers will be out in full force to pull

over impaired drivers and remove them from the roads to ensure our community stays safe. We

ask everyone to follow the law and do their part to keep themselves and other road users safe

throughout the winter holiday season. Drunk driving fatalities can be prevented when everyone

keeps road safety in mind as they prepare for holiday celebrations.

Drivers should be safe during this winter holiday season by planning ahead if they intend to drink. They

shouldn’t wait until after drinking to plan how to get somewhere. Impairment clouds a person’s judgment.

Drivers should secure a designated sober driver or call a taxi or rideshare for a sober ride home.

If a driver finds they are unable to drive, they should give their keys to a sober driver so that

person can get them home safely. When a friend has been drinking and is considering driving,

friends should be proactive — take away the keys and help them get a sober ride home. If

anyone spots a drunk driver, contact 911.

For more information on impaired driving, visit www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving.

August 20, 2025

CONTACT: Chief Deputy Scott Hahn, Union County Sheriff’s Office and the

Snyder-Union Coordinator for the North Central Regional DUI Enforcement Program 570-491-4700

Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over:

Let’s Work Together to End Drunk Driving!

Lewisburg, PA— From August 15 through September 1, the U.S. Department of

Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will be working

alongside Union & Snyder County Police for the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over high-visibility

enforcement campaign. The goal is to deter impaired driving and prevent the tragedies seen

during previous Labor Day weekends from happening again.

During the 2023 Labor Day holiday (6 p.m. September 1 – 5:59 a.m. September 5), there were

511 traffic crash fatalities nationwide. Of these 511 fatalities, 36% (185) involved a drunk

driver. Sixty-eight percent of the impaired drivers killed had a blood alcohol concentration

(BAC) of .15 or higher. Among drivers between the ages of 18 and 34 who were killed in

crashes over the Labor Day holiday in 2023, 45% of those drivers were drunk, with BACs of .08

or higher.

“We want our community members to understand that it’s our first priority to keep people

safe, so we’re asking everyone to plan ahead if they know they’ll be out drinking,” said

Chief Deputy Scott Hahn, Union County Sheriff’s Office and the Snyder-Union

County Coordinator for the North Central Regional DUI Enforcement Program “The Drive Sober

or Get Pulled Over campaign is an awareness effort to get the message out that drunk driving

is illegal and it kills. Let’s make this a partnership between law enforcement and drivers:

Help us protect the community and put an end to this dangerous behavior.”

Drivers should be safe during this Labor Day holiday weekend by planning ahead if they intend

to drink. They shouldn’t wait until after drinking to plan how to get somewhere. Impairment

clouds a person’s judgment. Drivers should secure a designated sober driver or call a taxi or

rideshare for a sober ride home.

If a driver finds they are unable to drive, they should give their keys to a sober driver so that

person can get them home safely. When a friend has been drinking and is considering driving,

friends should be proactive — take away the keys and help them get a sober ride home. If

anyone spots a drunk driver, contact 911.

For more information on impaired driving, visit www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving.