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Virginia is cracking down on drunken driving.
Governor Tim Kaine, Virginia State Police and local law enforcement are launching the 2008 Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign on Thursday. The campaign will focus on drunken drivers on rural roads.
The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles Highway Safety Office says more than one-third of traffic fatalities in Virginia last year were alcohol-related.
The campaign this year will use DUI checkpoints and an advertising blitz directed at young drivers. It is the seventh year for the initiative.
According to the latest figures available, Virginia saw an increase in the number of alcohol-related fatalities in 2006 from 2005, from 322 in 2005 to 374 in 2006. That followed declines for the previous three years.
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