{"id":51440,"date":"2025-12-03T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51440\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:15:09","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-release-statistics-on-crashes-dui-arrests-over-thanksgiving-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51440\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police release statistics on crashes, DUI arrests over Thanksgiving Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ad156f7fafbdca590a225ffa0d105406.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania State Police have released this year\u2019s statistics on crashes and DUI arrests that happened over the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The report covers incidents that happened from Nov. 26-30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In total, there were 1,183 vehicle crashes. Six deaths were reported from those crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/emergency-crews-respond-2-serious-crashes-washington-county-drivers-urged-avoid-i-70-i-79\/HDOUVDIZHNFUDCAUO52EUOBWIA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; 1 dead, 2 in critical condition after crash on I-79 in Washington County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; 1 dead, 2 in critical condition after crash on I-79 in Washington County<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-while-walking-along-mercer-county-roadway\/26KARHVDCZGGVBWDAPPWTTC264\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Pedestrian dies after being hit by vehicle while walking along Mercer County roadway;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PREVIOUS COVERAGE &gt;&gt;&gt; Pedestrian dies after being hit by vehicle while walking along Mercer County roadway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Troopers said 61 of those crashes included some sort of impaired driving. None of those DUI crashes were deadly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In total, 458 people were arrested in Pennsylvania for DUI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Citations were given to over 8,000 people. Citations for speeding were given to 7,472 people, 934 people received citations for not wearing a seat belt and 72 people were cited for not securing their children in safety seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were 16 fewer total crashes last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police have released this year\u2019s statistics on crashes and DUI arrests that happened over the Thanksgiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29231,28,30,29,1224,10426,25208,29230],"class_list":["post-51440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-dui-crashes","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-statistics","tag-thanksgiving-holiday","tag-vehicle-crashes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}