Holiday Drunk Driving Statistics

Though this doesn't apply to every state, I found this interesting and pretty disturbing. These are the stats for drunk driving in New York state for the holiday season. Police began their campaign December 14th and ended it January 1st. In that time period, state police issued more than 33,000 traffic tickets and arrested 538 people for driving while intoxicated.

Troopers say they operated 29 sobriety checkpoints, a dozen details targeting underage drinking, 10 "saturation details" targeting a specific area for drunken drivers and 41 additional dedicated local patrols against drunken driving.

State police say their results included 22 arrests for providing alcohol to minors and 12 related penal law violations.




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