We do anticipate that the roadways are going to give us some trouble because of the weather.
For some people nothing will make a difference. At least (impounding the car) makes them think about what they did. Now they are without their wheels.
The guys were just going from one crash to the next crash. We tend to get two to three times more collisions on a wet day than we do on a dry day.
We've been getting the typical spinouts. People are going too fast. You start hydroplaning after 50 mph. Even though the speed limit is 65, people need to slow down.
In conjunction with Roseville and Rocklin police departments and the Placer County Sheriff's Department, we'll be looking for parties where parents could be contributing to underage drinking. Some parents think that once you're home it's OK, but the fact is that anyone under the age of 21 cannot consume alcohol and parents can be charged with a misdemeanor.
He was in the No. 2 lane and just slid. He was probably going too fast.
Either people stayed at home and weren't on the roadway or heeded the advice to slow down, especially on the first rain of the year. The oil on the roadway appears especially during the first storm of the year.
It's a great idea, but a hard one to enforce. It does give us another punitive option. Again, for some people it's just not going to make a difference. For others it may make them think twice.
DUI arrests during the Christmas holiday doubled statewide from last year. We had 1,209 statewide DUI arrests versus 622 in 2004.
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