Georgia
Peachtree City Police warn of dangerous DUI trend in Georgia
DUI arrests proceed to rise in Georgia
Regulation enforcement officers are seeing a disturbing pattern amongst drivers. Newly launched statistic present an dramatic improve within the variety of drunk driving arrests for the reason that begin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. – Police in Peachtree Metropolis say each lethal crash officers labored in 2022 was attributable to a DUI driver. That revelation highlights a disturbing rise within the variety of DUI arrests within the metropolis and echoed throughout all the state of Georgia.
Regulation enforcement officers have seen a steep improve in drunk driving instances for the reason that begin of the coronavirus pandemic and has dramatically elevated every year since.
Peachtree Metropolis police say the variety of arrest have triple from earlier than the pandemic, together with daytime DUIs. In January, the police division says they discovered a younger girl handed out behind the wheel of a pickup truck at an intersection in the course of the after. Drunk driving in the course of the day was uncommon, they are saying.
Police Lt. Chris Hyatt says the group mirrors different communities on this pattern. Whole DUIs costs in 2019 have been 88 and greater than doubled the following yr in the course of the pandemic to 176. The pattern accelerated in 2021 and continued in 2022.
Daytime DUIs and people linked to drug use have greater than doubled in the identical time interval, police say.
Police say a part of the rise within the DUI numbers is the results of elevated enforcement, however they imagine that accounts for such a dramatic improve in DUI arrests.