During an eight-hour drunk-driving crackdown Saturday, police in Long Beach made 12 arrests and issued 16 traffic tickets for unsafe driving, authorities said.
The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign started at 7 p.m. Saturday and ended at 3 a.m. Sunday. LBPD patrol officers spanned the city looking for impaired drivers and made 10 suspected drunken driving arrests, one alleged felony drug arrest and one alleged DUI warrant arrest, according to a news release.
Around the same, Los Angeles sheriff deputies arrested 366 motorists suspected of drunken driving during a three-day countywide crackdown.
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The “Avoid the 100 Los Angeles County DUI Campaign” — a part of the Summer/Labor Day National Anti-DUI effort — began at 12:01 a.m. Friday and ended midnight Saturday, according to a sheriff's department statement.
During that same period in 2012, there were 391 drunken driving arrests during the same 48-hour time period, according to the news statement. Six of the arrests overnight were a result of crashes causing injury.
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Over the past three years, there have been 305 DUI collisions in Long Beach that claimed 14 lives and injured 417 others, according to the LBPD release.
— City News Service contributed to this article.
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