Eyewitness News rode along with Suffolk County police as they patrolled some of the deadliest streets in the state and set up sobriety checkpoints to get drunk drivers off the roads.
Suffolk officials push for drugs, alcohol to carry same penalty when it comes to impaired driving SUFFOLK COUNTY , New York --
"We come here for the holidays. We make dinner and come here and sit and eat with him," said Andrea Carpenter, Timothy Carpenter, Jr.'s mother. "Everyone has sympathy for the overdose epidemic that's occurring in this country and in this state, but you can't get in the car. You cannot risk other people's lives. You know when you're using, you can't get in the car," she said."I think it's very alarming," said Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney."What we're proposing is let's treat drugs and alcohol the same," he said.
New York also requires the named drug to be on a public health list in order to charge the driver with DUI.The list is not consistently updated, as some synthetic drugs have changed."Whippets, nitrous oxide, that cannot be charged for driving while intoxicated," an officer said.
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