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Uploaded: Saturday, September 1, 2012, 10:16 PM
Bay Area police tally drunk driving arrests
Patrols out in force in statewide crackdown, police agencies say
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Bay Area California Highway Patrol and police agencies say they are out in force this holiday weekend as part of a statewide crackdown on drunk and dangerous drivers.
A summer crackdown started Aug. 17 and ends Monday.
In Santa Clara County, DUI arrests were down, with 251
reported as of Thursday night compared to 293 last year.
Sobriety checkpoints were planned for Saturday in San Jose and
Milpitas.
In San Mateo County, officers have made 129 DUI arrests during the enforcement period, down from the 151 made during the same period in 2011. There had been no DUI deaths or major injury collisions as of Thursday, officials said.
A sobriety checkpoint was planned for the city of San Bruno this holiday weekend, and DUI saturation patrols are planned in areas including Brisbane, Daly City, Menlo Park, San Bruno, San Mateo and South San Francisco.
In San Francisco, law enforcement agencies had made 85 drunken driving arrests as of Thursday. That number is about a third lower than last year's tally, according to spokeswoman Jan Ford.
Sobriety checkpoints were scheduled in the city for Friday and Sunday in North Beach.
In Sonoma County, three DUI checkpoints were planned for the
holiday weekend.
In Solano County, 35 people had been arrested for DUI as of
Thursday night, sharply down from the 75 arrested in the same period last year. — Bay City News Service Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Alcohol Kills, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Sep 2, 2012 at 6:49 am There really should be a legal alternative to alcohol that won't cause so must risk to the public. The drunks killing people on the road, the violent altercations happening every weekend, the endless deaths and the endless pain happening in homes across the country.
There really should be a legal alternative to alcohol. It won't stop the suffering entirely, but it might reduce it.
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Posted by lock them up, a resident of the Adobe-Meadows neighborhood, on Sep 2, 2012 at 8:09 am So many drunk drivers endangering the innocent public means that penalties are not high enough. We need mandatory jail sentences after the first conviction.
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Posted by More-Numbers--Please!, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Sep 2, 2012 at 10:15 am > So many drunk drivers endangering the innocent public
It would pay to have more information at our disposal than we typically get from a Weekly article. The following is 2010 stats for California, relative to alcohol-related accidents--
FACT SHEET/Driving-Under-The-Influence (DUI) Statistics 2010:
Web Link
Time-of-day when the accidents occurred is not provided. Neither do these stats offer any insight into the deaths/injuries of driver/passengers for the car causing the accident vs other parties involved in these accidents. The stats provided at this link suggest a goodly number of accidents involve motorcycles, reducing the probable number of "innocent" people involved.
It's a real shame we can't get decent reporting in this town.
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Posted by Ashley_K, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Sep 3, 2012 at 2:31 am "Alcohol Kills" - maybe I'm missing something, but what are you suggesting as a "legal alternative" to alcohol? Square dancing? Cow-tipping? Those don't kill people. Anything that alters mental state is deadly behind the wheel. What exactly are you suggesting?
In case you're not aware, alcohol IS legal. It's what someone does under it's influence that's not.
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