{"id":81907,"date":"2026-01-09T01:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81907\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:56:06","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-release-dui-crash-statistics-from-new-years-holiday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81907\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police release DUI, crash statistics from New Year\u2019s holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pennsylvania State Police have released their report on DUI arrests and crashes that happened over the New Year\u2019s holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The statistics were released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Over the course of New Year\u2019s Eve through Jan. 4, troopers investigated 1,098 vehicle crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Three of those crashes were fatal and 158 resulted in injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Of the recorded crashes, 69 were DUI-related. One of the DUI crashes caused a fatality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In total, 378 people were arrested for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Troopers issued nearly 5,000 citations to people who were traveling during their holiday celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Those citations included 4,377 for speeding, 508 for failing to wear a seat belt and 60 for not securing children in safety seats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The review only covers incidents that Pennsylvania State Police responded to. Other law enforcement agencies are not included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/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 their report on DUI arrests and crashes that happened over the New Year\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41322,41328,41326,18837,41321,29231,21810,41327,41325,41324,28,41323,30,29,1224,41319,487,41318,41320,29252],"class_list":{"0":"post-81907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-deadly-crashes","9":"tag-deadly-crashes-new-years","10":"tag-deadly-crashes-new-years-eve","11":"tag-dui","12":"tag-dui-crash-arrests","13":"tag-dui-crashes","14":"tag-new-years-eve","15":"tag-new-years-deadly-crashes","16":"tag-new-years-eve-deadly-crashes","17":"tag-new-years-eve-duis","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-pennsylvania-deadly-crashes","20":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","21":"tag-pennsylvania-news","22":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","23":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police-arrests","24":"tag-state-police","25":"tag-state-police-arrests","26":"tag-state-trooper-arrests","27":"tag-state-troopers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81907","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=81907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}