No DUI fatalities recorded over Memorial Day weekend

2008-05-30 / Community

CHP sees 15 percent drop in number of drunkdriving arrests

Fewer people were arrested and no one was killed in a DUI crash during the Avoid the 14 Memorial Day crackdown in Ventura County.

Police officers, sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers made 102 DUI arrests during the long weekend, a 15 percent drop from last year's holiday weekend total of 120.

No one died at the hands of an impaired driver during last year's crackdown.

The enforcement sweep lasted from May 23 to midnight May 26.

The sweep included in-city DUI patrols and a sobriety checkpoint in Ojai along with freeway saturation by the CHP, said Senior Officer Humberto Jimenez of the Oxnard Police Department, campaign coordinator.

Avoid the 14 gets its name from the 14 law enforcement agencies in the county.

Officers will be out again in force for the Labor Day weekend and for three weeks at the end of the year.

The campaign is funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Arrest/Traffic Collision Stats for Memorial Day MEP

2007 2008
Total Traffic Collisions 22 16
Injury Collisions 6 8
Persons Inujured 10 16
Fatal Collisions 0 0
Persons Killed 0 0
Property Damage Collisions 13 8
DUI Collisions 3 4
DUI Arrests 21 29

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