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2 Killed on O.C. Highways Over Holiday Weekend, CHP Reports
Statewide, 21people lost their lives in traffic. In addition, 88 motorists in Orange County were arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, up from 85 last year.
The California Highway Patrol today reported two traffic-related fatalities on Orange County highways during the first 84 hours of this year's four-day Thanksgiving holiday.
The reporting period began 6 a.m Wednesday and ended at 6 a.m. today. During that same reporting last year, the CHP reported no traffic related deaths. Statewide, 21 fatalities were reported. Last year, 12 people were killed in the comparable period.
In Orange County, CHP officers arrested 88 motorists on suspicion of drunken driving, a few more than last year's total of 85. Statewide, there were 1,350 drunken driving arrests, in comparison to last year's count of 1,419.
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The drunken driver figures tally only arrests made by CHP officers, and do not include hundreds of other police agencies up and down the state. The fatality total includes deaths investigated by all police agencies in California, and sometimes are low because of occasional delays by local jurisdictions in reporting fatal crashes to the CHP.
—City News Service
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