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Over the Christmas holiday weekend, DUI arrests were down, but fatal collisions were up in the Bay Area from a year ago, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The CHP reported that 165 people were arrested for driving under the influence over the holiday weekend. Three fatal collisions were reported over the weekend, the CHP said.
In the Tri-Valley, CHP officers from two local offices reported a total of 27 DUI arrests, down significantly from last year. Dublin-area CHP officer Steve Creel attributed the decrease to the extended holiday period and rainy weather.
“There was not a huge peak in either arrests or traffic collisions…we handled about 24 collisions and five of those were involving injuries. Only one of those collisions caused by a DUI driver which is lower than the average amount,” Creel said. “It was a very peaceful and mellow Christmas day for people working the road. At the same time we experienced a lot of rain, it was a very wet weekend and hopefully that…really made people think about their safety while driving.”
Dublin-area CHP made 13 DUI arrests between Dec. 21 and Christmas Day with most arrests occurring Friday through Sunday. One DUI arrest and one collision were reported on Christmas, Creel said.
CHP Spokesman John Franzen — whose office covers all of Interstate 680 from Martinez to Diablo Road and Interstate 80 in Contra Costa County — said officers made 13 DUI arrests, down from 23 last year.
Statewide, there were 1170 DUI arrests made, up nearly 200 more than the 980 arrests made in 2011.
Highway Patrol will increase its staffing levels over the New Year’s holiday.
“We’ll be looking for the impaired driver and to assist anyone who needs our help,” Creel said. “Hopefully that means a minimal amount of collisions for the Tri-Valley and a minimal amount of DUI arrests so we can have a safe and responsible New Year’s Eve.”
Bay City News Service contributed to this article
Bay City News Service contributed to this article
Bay City News Service contributed to this article
It has been exactly one year since a young woman from Pleasanton in her 20’s riding on her second DUI (and behind the wheel of a car with a suspended license) crashed into the front of my Danville home and property. I came home in the dark evening and with the help of our good Police sorted out what happened before I arrived home from work. She was hauled off in an ambulance, lived without injuries, and I was left to clean up the major damage sustained to my property. Luckily she did not kill herself –close to huge trees–nor my animals in the yard. Hopefully she has been remorseful and made an effort to seek help before she kills someone. Or the courts and legal system forced her to do so unless a DUI lawyer got her off easy. Yesterday. (after expensive major reconstruction) I was with my dogs in the front of my yard where one year later I still occasionally find pieces of glass or plastic from her car embedded in the soil. A reminder that our youth and their parents seem certainly not as I was raised. I always thought I might have either this girl’s parents or herself stop by to engage-not so much in an apology (which would be welcomed after making last Christmas season a construction nightmare) but maybe just an “acknowledgement” of how alcohol related recklessness had an impact on someone else’s life. I was raised by parents who probably would have dragged me to the site of the mess I had caused and would have had me involved in the cleanup for redemption. A different society we live in now?
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