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28Jan 2019

This Past Holiday Season Saw A Major Increase In DUI Arrests

Apparently, people are still not getting the message that it is NOT OK to drink
and drive. The statistics coming out of California for the 2018 
holiday season are a bit alarming.

• During Christmas weekend, in California, there were more than 1100 DUI 
arrests. That is almost two hundred more than the just over nine hundred 
arrests made during the 2017 Christmas weekend.
• This past New Year's Eve, California officers made over eight hundred 
DUI arrests, compared with about seven hundred in 2017.
• The numbers for 2018 compared to 2017 are a twenty percent increase 
over the previous year (2016) as well. This year’s arrests have 
surpassed those numbers yet again.

It is clear that people do not realize that if you drink and drive, you 
are going to get caught. What is needed? More severe penalties? Of 
course, the solution is never to drink and drive at all. If you live in 
Burlington, Essex, Colchester, Winooski, Williston, Shelburne or 
anywhere in the State of Vermont, and have been arrested or charged with 
DUI or any crime, call Handy Law for aggressive and experienced legal 
defense.