LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Last weekend's Independence Day celebrations around Lake County were accompanied by a slight increase in drunk driving arrests and crashes, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The CHP ran one of its regular “maximum enforcement periods” from the evening of Friday, July 1, through the night of Monday, July 4, putting all available officers on area roadways to watch out for driving under the influence cases as well as speeding and distracted driving, the agency said.
Officer Kory Reynolds of the CHP's Clear Lake Area office said the statistics for the weekend showed DUI cases were up when compared with 2015.
Reynolds said this year's DUI arrests totaled eight, compared to seven in 2015.
In addition, there were two DUI collisions last weekend compared to one during the same weekend last year, Reynolds said.
He said the crashes both occurred on Sunday and were noninjury.
One occurred on North Shore Drive in Hidden Valley Lake, and involved one vehicle hitting a parked car, possibly backing into it, he said.
The other crash was on Soda Bay Road near Kelseyville Sunday afternoon and involved a vehicle into a pole, as Lake County News has reported. That crash resulted in extensive utility repairs that required the roadway to be closed until Monday morning.
Reynolds said both crashes resulted in arrests, but he did not report the names of the arrested drivers.
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CHP: DUI arrests, drunk driving crashes up slightly on 2016 Independence Day weekend
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