Holiday DUI is Down
The CHP (California Highway Patrol) says that there were only 75 drunken driving arrests in the county so far this Thanksgiving holiday weekend. This is an improvement from last year, CHP officers made 92 DUI arrests in the county. The only fatalities reported countywide this weekend occurred in Balboa Park at midnight, when a driver and passenger were killed in a rollover crash. Statewide, CHP officers made 942 DUI arrests between Wednesday evening and Saturday morning. Last year, 618 arrests were made in all, Cross said. In the Bay Area's nine counties, the CHP made 82 arrests in the four-day period last year. This year, there were 83 arrests through Friday morning.
Woman Arrested For DUI and
A passenger was killed when the car in which she was riding hit a tree in the center median on North McDowell Boulevard Friday night. The female Petaluma woman was subsequently arrested on charges of vehicular manslaughter and for felony DUI drunken driving. The passenger was dead when officers and paramedics arrived. The DUI woman only suffered a minor injury to her finger and was transported to Petaluma Valley Hospital. The collision is under investigation and police are looking for witnesses.
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