(St. Paul, MN) — State public safety officials are reporting a ten-percent increase in drunken driving arrests during the Labor Day holiday period.
Mike Hanson with the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety says 292 law enforcement agencies made one-thousand-265 arrests for impaired driving.
That’s 100 more than Labor Day weekend 2021.
Hanson says those arrests potentially prevented 12-hundred-plus fatal crashes across Minnesota.
More than 18-thousand drivers have been arrested for D-W-I this year.