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Citations Drop During New Year's Travel

01/07/2016

Kansas Highway Patrol

(MSC News)--Two fatal wrecks on Kansas roadways during the New Year's weekend holiday.

That's the word from the Kansas Highway Patrol, following the release of statistics related to the activities of the holiday weekend, which ran from 6:00 on the evening of December 31st through 11:59 on the night of January 3rd.

According to the patrol, neither of the two fatal wrecks involved alcohol.

One similar wreck occurred the previous year.

The figures show that DUI arrests remained the same between the two years, at 26, while other citations, including speeding, were down. Adult seatbelt citations dropped to 90, compared to 137 the previous year, while teen seatbelt citations dropped only slightly, from 7 to 5. Child restraint citations were also down only slightly, dropping to 15 as compared to 20 in the previous year's New Year's Holiday reporting period.

Among the two crashes was one in the local area, with 27-year-old Atchison resident Isaiah Jackson killed in a New Year's Eve rollover wreck in Winchester.

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