Nevada Highway Patrol busy over Labor Day weekend
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 09/07/2011 - 3:36pm
Troopers also assisted 404 motorists with disabled vehicles on our area highways with a majority of those calls taking place on Interstate 80 and State Route 447 between Wadsworth and Gerlach. Flat tires, broken radiator and heater hoses, fan belts and running out of fuel were some of the common mechanical failures in these calls for service.
By Chuck Allen, NHP
The Labor Day holiday weekend produced a high volume of traffic on northern Nevada highways resulting in a large number of calls for service. During the three-day weekend, nineteen people were arrested in the Reno-Sparks area with fifteen of those arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Troopers assigned to the Carson City area logged 3 DUI arrests. The DUI arrest activity for Lovelock, Fernley, Fallon and Hawthorne was not available this morning.
One of the DUI arrests resulted from a two-vehicle injury crash on State Route 445 at the intersection of Los Altos on Sunday morning around 7:00 am. The other DUI arrests stemmed from traffic enforcement stops where speed, failing to maintain a travel lane, or following another vehicle too closely were noted as the moving violations on the arrest reports.
Troopers also assisted 404 motorists with disabled vehicles on our area highways with a majority of those calls taking place on Interstate 80 and State Route 447 between Wadsworth and Gerlach. Flat tires, broken radiator and heater hoses, fan belts and running out of fuel were some of the common mechanical failures in these calls for service.
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