As January faded into February, and New Year Resolutions dissolved too, SGI is hoping that impaired driving follows suit.

In the month of January, there were 224 impaired driving offences as SGI reports, a number SGI's Manager of Media Relations Tyler McMurchy said fell short of their goal.

"We said when we kicked off the January traffic safety spotlight, we wanted 2019 to be the year that nobody even thinks about driving impaired. The results from January show that some people didn't take that advice, but there is still more than ten months left in this year for everybody to make good choices. We want no one to ever drive impaired, we want no one to ever be charged with impaired driving, and we want no one to be hurt or killed as a result of impaired driving."

McMurchy wanted to pass along the message that it has never been harder to get away with impaired driving.

He cited the fact that new legislation made it possible for police to administer a sobriety test with any legal traffic stop, in addition to new testers to detect both marijuana and cocaine being in the hands of police in Saskatchewan.

"When I say it's never been harder to get away, you look at the new laws, you look at the new tools that police have, you look at the amount of traffic enforcement that's happening out there. There are more traffic officers on Saskatchewan roads than ever before."

In a release from SGI, it was also outlined that 640 distracted driving offences were recorded in January, 545 of which were cellphone-related.