Caddo Sheriff to Conduct Sobriety Check Friday Get our free mobile app According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, every day, about 28 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes. That's one person every 52 minutes. When you consider the wave of panic that COVID 19 has brought on, it makes you wonder why the vast numbers of deaths brought about by drunk driving haven't caused the same pandemic style environment. Driving while impaired is just dumb. And obviously it is against the law. And the Caddo Sheriff's Department is doing what they can to keep these drivers off the road.