Thanksgiving DUI arrests increase slightly
Saturday, November 28, 2009
The Weekly Calistogan
The Thanksgiving holiday traditionally means heavy traffic on California’s roadways. However, holiday travelers won’t be the only ones making a trip this year. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has mounted a campaign to keep an eye out for impaired drivers and and safety belt violators campaign during that will last through the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
According to published reports, Bay Area CHP officers have -- through Saturday morning -- netted slightly higher DUI arrests than during the same period last year -- with 87 people in the Bay Area for driving under the influence since the start of the maximum enforcement period at 6 p.m. Wednesday, compared to 83 arrested for DUI during the same time period last year. Thanksgiving is also an Operation CARE (Combined Accident Reduction Effort) holiday. Operation CARE is a joint program of the nation’s highway patrols that places special safety emphasis on interstate highways during holiday periods. CARE highways in California include Interstates 80, 40, 15 (San Bernardino to the Nevada border) and 5 (Bakersfield north to the Oregon line). Statewide, there have been more DUI arrests and less traffic deaths compared to 2008. CHP officers have arrested 542 drivers for DUI statewide, compared to 513 during the same period last year. There have been 12 fatalities statewide since Wednesday, three less than in 2008.
Thirty-three people were killed on California roadways during the Thanksgiving holiday in 2008. Among the 20 vehicle occupants killed in CHP jurisdiction, 35 percent were not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.
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