Washington State DUI Law: Tri-cities vs. Seattle
Interesting factoids about Washington State DUI law. So Seattle gets 19 DUI arrests a night. Tri-cities gets 9-10 arrests per night. Population-wise that is a staggering statistic.
KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | DUI Bus Back in the Tri-Cities: "KENNEWICK, Wash-- The Mobile Impaired Driving Unit is run through State Patrol and it's designed to assist officers throughout the entire state. But in the last three months, it has come to the Tri-Cities three times.
Here's how it works: individual police units can request the bus, or if there's a big event, like the Water Follies, it will likely be here. But with no big events in 2009 so far, why has the bus come to the Tri-Cities multiple times?
One sergeant with the Washington State Patrol says drivers in our area too frequently gets behind the wheel drunk.
'If you're asking me if it's needed over here, of course it is,' says Sergeant Zach Elmore of the Washington State Patrol. 'Do we have a DUI problem? Yea, we really do. For us to get 9 or 10 in a night compared to Seattle, where they get 19 in a night. That kind of bothers me.'
The bus will help cut down the time it takes to process a DUI by up to an hour. It'll be in the Tri-Cities Friday and Saturday night. "
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