Corpus Christi Police Traffic Investigators Announce DWI Statistics

The Corpus Christi Police Traffic Safety Section released the year to date statistics for criminal complaints for Intoxicated Driving on May 30, 2014.

 
The Corpus Christi Police Department have arrested 628 people for Driving While Intoxicated or Driving Under the Influence from January 1st to May 30, 2014 which is a 36% increase from the same time last year. The Corpus Christi Police Department had arrested 461 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:

 
622                      Arrests for Driving While Intoxicated as of 5/30/2014
6                          Arrests for Driving Under the Influence as of 5/30/2014
211                      Suspects consented to give a sample of their breath
153                      Suspects consented to give a sample of their blood
252                      Suspects refused to give a sample of breath or blood and a search warrant was obtained
6                           Suspects refused both blood and breath request, and no evidence was obtained.
61                         Felony DWI cases have been filed. Those include
                                                                                                 35 for DWI with two or more prior convictions
                                                                                                 13 for intoxicated assault
                                                                                                 12 for DWI with Child Passenger
                                                                                                  1 for intoxicated manslaughter
.16 Is the Average Breath /Blood results from suspects this year
(.08 is the standard by face value that a person is intoxicated).

149 DWI arrest were involved in Traffic Crashes