The Corpus Christi Police Traffic Safety Section released the year to date statistics for criminal complaints for Intoxicated Driving on May 14, 2014.
The Corpus Christi Police Department had arrested 557 people for Driving While Intoxicated or Driving Under the Influence from January 1st to May 14, 2014 which is a 36% increase from the same time last year. The Corpus Christi Police Department had arrested 409 people for intoxicated driving offenses by the same time last year and had a total of 1,203 arrests for intoxicated driving offenses for all of 2013; an all time record high quantity for the Corpus Christi Police Department. The Corpus Christi Police Traffic Safety Section further reported the following data:
557 Arrests for Driving While Intoxicated as of 5/14/2014
3 Arrests for Driving Under the Influence as of 5/14/2014
189 Suspects consented to give a sample of their breath
145 Suspects consented to give a sample of their blood
218 Suspects refused to give a sample of breath or blood and a search warrant was obtained
8 Suspects refused both blood and breath request, and no evidence was obtained.
60 Felony DWI cases. 29 for DWI with two or more prior convictions
12 for intoxicated assault
11 DWI with Child Passenger
1 intoxicated manslaughter
.17 Average Breath /Blood results from suspects
(.08 is the standard by face value that a person is intoxicated).
141 DWI arrest were involved in Traffic Crashes
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