Community Corner
East Haven Police Busy on the Roads This Holiday Season
A look at local police activity on the roads here in East Haven, and statewide, from Dec. 24 to Jan. 1.
Police departments across Connecticut were especially vigilant over the holiday season — a time of year associated with merriment and, sometimes, impaired driving.
Between Dec. 24, 2013 and Jan. 1, 2014, all across Connecticut local police departments initiated a total of some 6,700 traffic stops, responded to more 1,660 motor vehicle accidents and charged 142 drivers with operating under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Locally, East Haven Police Department's data was as follows:
- Number of calls: unavailable
- Motor vehicle stops: 10
- DUI arrests: 1
- Motor vehicle accidents: 25
- Rported auto-related fatalities: 0
- Motor vehicle stops per capita: 0.0342
- Motor vehicle accidents per capita: 0.0854
- DUIs per capita: 0.003418
The slideshow above lists the Top 20 towns with the most DUI arrests by population in that eight-day period.
(Slide figures show percent capita, or the number of arrests/stops/accidents per 100 residents.)
Tragically, local police also reported four deaths due to traffic accidents between Christmas Eve and New Years Day.
“Each year thousands of lives are lost on the nation’s highways,” Daly said. “The goal is encouraging all motorists to be especially diligent in exercising the safest driving practices possible.”
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