CSP: These Colorado counties had the most impaired driving citations last year

Brooke Williams
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DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado State Patrol revealed where troopers gave the most citations for impaired driving last year.

Last year, CSP issued 4,120 citations for impaired driving, according to a press release. While every county had a share of those incidents, CSP said “certain areas of our state have increased amounts.”

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These counties had the most impaired driving citations in 2023:

  1. El Paso County

  2. Adams County

  3. Jefferson County

  4. Weld County

  5. Larimer County

Earlier this year, CSP released similar data regarding which counties had the most speeding citations last year and which counties had the most speeding citations in school and construction zones. El Paso County topped each of those lists as well.

“Being arrested for impairment can have long-term consequences that shouldn’t be underestimated,” CSP chief Col. Matthew C. Packard said. “It impacts your job, family situation, financial situation and more.”

Packard said he hopes that Coloradans can become known as “people who do the right thing by enjoying themselves responsibly.”

“We could drive down our fatality rate significantly if we stop this one poor choice,” he said.

CSP said impaired driving “baffles” many law enforcement officers as there are many options to avoid driving impaired.

“It could happen anywhere on any of the roads,” Trooper Gabriel Moltrer said, adding “There’s no road that would be 100% free of it, unfortunately.”

Troopers are always looking for signs of unsafe and impaired driving, CSP said, whether on a regular shift or when conducting a targeted impairment enforcement operation.

“It could be any number of reasons from the amount of troopers that they have on any given day to even the type of activities that they have going on,” Trooper Gabriel Moltrer told FOX31’s Nicole Fierro. “It goes throughout the whole entire state through daily operations as well as those extra shifts and those surge operations where there’s going to be more troopers out on any given shift than what they normally would be.”

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