Twice as Many Drivers Arrested New Years Eve This Year Compared to Last Year

Law enforcement agencies across the Bay Area have indicated that this New Years Eve yielded twice as many driving under the influence arrests as were made this time last year. Officer Hugo Mendoza of the California Highway Patrol's Golden Gate Division stated that officers arrested eighty four motorists for driving under the influence between 6:00 p.m. December 31 and 6:00a.m. January 1. For the same period last year, forty one individuals were arrested under suspicion of drunken driving across the Bay Area.

Oddly enough, the California Highway Patrol reported a drop in DUI arrests during the Christmas enforcement period compared to the number of arrests made last year during the same time period. This year, the CHP arrested one hundred eighty six drivers in the Bay Area between midnight on Christmas Eve and 6 a.m. on December 28. Last year, two hundred thirty six arrests were made.

Of the dramatic upswing in DUI arrests, Officer Mendoza speculated, "A couple days later, now it's way up compared to last year. It's kind of weird. Maybe people were not drinking during Christmas and decided to go out during New Year's."

Beginning December 12th, as part of the California Avoid Program, one hundred twenty five separate law enforcement agencies rallied to produce nearly twenty five hundred driving under the influence arrests. The California Avoid Program is an annual holiday drunk driving crackdown which typically yields the highest levels of DUI arrests seen all year.

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