Constables aim to get drunken drivers off the streets on New Year's Eve

SPRING, Texas – Local 2 rode along with members of the Harris County Precinct 4 Constables DWI Enforcement Team Wednesday night. 

Twenty one deputy constables in 21 different cars, who on New Year's Eve are hunting drunk drivers.

"Our goal is to spot and stop every single impaired driver on the roadway and get them off the streets," says Lt. Stan Jolly.

The team will be out patrolling all night New Year's Eve and all day New Year's Day.

Their mission is simple to end the senseless killing of innocent victims like 22-year-old Krysta Rodriguez.

In February 2010 Krysta was crushed to death inside her boyfriend's car, after a drunk driver, with a blood alcohol level 3-times the legal limit, slammed into the car she was riding in.

"It's a difficult pill to swallow, not just losing my daughter but losing her in this way, it didn't have to happen and that's what eats at me," says Mark Rodriguez, Krysta's father.

Meanwhile in North Harris County, the deputy constables are out in force looking for the smallest sign that people are driving impaired.

Local 2 is with them as they stop one car that doesn't even have its headlights on.

Lt. Stan Jolly tells Local 2, "This is so typical, impaired drivers are so out of it, they can't even remember to put their lights on."


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