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Virginia's Labor Day Weekend Safer than a Year Ago
Posted on Sep 09, 2010
In Virginia and across the country Labor Day Weekend is synonymous with an increase in drunk driving and fatal accidents. Though this year Virginia State Police did respond to several deadly accidents and make multiple drunk driving arrests numbers were down.
This year Virginia State Police troopers responded to 378 crashes; 141 fewer than Labor Day Weekend 2009. Though any loss of life is unacceptable, this year the number of people who died in a crash was eight, nearly half as many as the same weekend last year.
In addition to assisting at the scenes of the many accidents, state police arrested 132 drunk drivers on DUI charges. Troopers also ticketed 8,836 speeders and 2,420 reckless drivers. Local police forces in Portsmouth and Virginia Beach conducted checkpoints across their cities.
In Portsmouth these checkpoints netted 64 tickets on charges that ranged from driving on a suspended license to DUI. Virginia Beach police reported that 401 cars traveled through their checkpoint. They issued three DUI's, one child restraint violation, one suspended license, one warrant served and 17 other citations.
Hopefully the trend in accident reduction will continue next year and 2011 will see no highway deaths or serious injuries over the holiday weekend.
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