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DUI Numbers Decrease

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DUI Numbers Decrease
DUI Numbers Decrease

The coronavirus pandemic is having some unintended *positive* impacts on Minnesota roadways.

Numbers down-stinger-2 the coronavirus pandemic is having some unintended positive impacts on minnesota roadways..

Kimt new three's jessica bringe joins us live from highway 52 with what law enforcement is seeing..

Jessica.

Live dui numbers down-live vo-2 amy- taking a look behind me..

The highway definitely has less traffic as we hit rush hour..

Than we'd usually see at this time..

The olmsted county sheriff's department tells me deputies have made significantly fewer drunk driving arrests since minnesota's stay at home order was enacted... which is good news as the roads are safer to travel for us all.

Dui numbers down-vo-1 lowerthird2line coronavirus:dui arrests down across minnesota rochester, mn across minnesota there were just uner 100 d-w-i arrests this past weekend..that's compared to nearly 300 arrests during the same weekend last year..

According to minnesota highway safety and research center.

The sheriff's department says there are fewer people on the roads..

In bars and restaurants as the community takes governor tim walz's stay at home order seriously.

Dui numbers down-sot-1 lowerthird2line coronavirus:sheriff kevin torgerson olmsted county sheriff dept.

This most recent st.

Patricks day was significantly different than any i've ever seen in my entire career.

That was kind of the starting point where we saw a big change in what we saw for traffic and driver's behavior and things like that.

Dui numbers down-live sot-3 over the past couple weeks there have only been around three drunk driving arrests..

Which the department says is a lot less than average.

Live in rochester- jessica bringe- kimt news 3.

/ / / thank you jessica.

The sheriff's department says it's not only drunk driving arrests that are down..

But other traffic citations like speeding are lower as well.

Smoking and corona-vo-2 we have a warning

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