Holiday Drunk-Driving Arrests Up
California Highway Patrol officers arrested 125 people on suspicion of driving drunk on Orange County highways over the long holiday weekend, authorities said Monday.
The tally by 6 a.m. Monday had outstripped last year’s 116 arrests of drunk-driving suspects for the entire 1991 Labor Day weekend.
But it fell short of the 167 arrests made for the same holiday weekend in 1990, when CHP officers--armed with a tougher legal standard for drunkenness--mounted a crackdown on county highways.
Statewide, CHP officers had made 1,992 arrests of motorists suspected of driving under the influence between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Monday.
That was down slightly from the 2,002 arrests made during the same period in 1991.
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