Holiday DUII Numbers, Jan. 5

Preliminary New Year’s Holiday reporting numbers: Oregon State Police troopers reported an uptick in the number of DUII arrests made over this New Year’s Holiday period, December 31, 2014, at 6:00 p.m., to January 1, 2015, at 11:59 p.m. During the 2014-2015 holiday period troopers arrested 37 drivers for Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants, up from 2013 when troopers arrested 29 impaired drivers. Troopers responded to 35 crashes this year, 2 of which involved one or more fatality.