A statewide crackdown on drunken driving netted 178 arrests on Saturday, bringing the Holiday DUI Task Force’s total to more than 2,000 since the Thanksgiving weekend.
According to the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, officers made 18 arrests for aggravated DUI Saturday.
A drunken-driving offense is considered aggravated when the motorist has two previous DUI offenses in the last seven years, if the motorist has a suspended, canceled or revoked license or when there is a passenger younger than 15 in the vehicle.
More that one-quarter of Saturday’s arrests were classified extreme, with blood-alcohol content levels exceeding 0.15. Of all arrestees, the average BAC was 0.136.
Of the task force’s 2,043 total DUI arrests, 648 have been for extreme DUI.
The task force will operate until Dec. 31.
