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Texas troopers made 1,400 Fourth of July DWI arrests
July 19th, 2011 by Administrator
John Egan
Hundreds of Texas motorists didn’t enjoy much freedom over the Fourth of July weekend.
From June 27 through July 6, Texas Highway Patrol troopers arrested 1,406 drunken drivers across the state, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. That figure does not include drunken driving arrests made by local police and sheriff’s departments.
Of the 1,406 arrests, 575 were made by troopers whose work was financed through a special Texas Department of Transportation grant. Troopers focused on looking for drunken drivers in high-risk locations at times when alcohol-related crashes occur most often.
“With the additional grant funding, our troopers stayed on the roads longer and made more arrests. I’m certain that we prevented some potentially serious crashes by putting intoxicated drivers in jail,” says David Baker, assistant director of the Highway Patrol.
