09-30-2014, 06:22 PM
"I have a friend who is a bartender in Hilo who said he gets pulled over all the time driving home to Puna from work early in the morning (2-3:00). The police pretty much assume that anyone driving right after the bars close is impaired. When we lived in Keaukaha roadblocks were a constant on the weekends. Drunk driving is pretty common here, and the police know it, and they know where they can scoop up a goodly number of impaired drivers without much trouble. They also do group actions like that right around the time safety stickers registrations expire every month."
Carol,
I've lost count of the number of times I've driven from Hilo to HPP in the early hours, quite often after a long drive from the summit. My guess is I've done this a couple of hundred times now, maybe more.
I have never been stopped by the police apart from on one occasion when they had set up a DUI check point in Keaau, and that was much earlier in the night.
I know it's not a particularly scientific argument to share my own experience, but maybe the police really do only stop drivers they suspect of driving impaired during those hours rather than assuming everyone driving during those hours is impaired.
Carol,
I've lost count of the number of times I've driven from Hilo to HPP in the early hours, quite often after a long drive from the summit. My guess is I've done this a couple of hundred times now, maybe more.
I have never been stopped by the police apart from on one occasion when they had set up a DUI check point in Keaau, and that was much earlier in the night.
I know it's not a particularly scientific argument to share my own experience, but maybe the police really do only stop drivers they suspect of driving impaired during those hours rather than assuming everyone driving during those hours is impaired.