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New Year's Eve and New Year's Day see spike in DUI arrests, with 28 made on January 1st.

People who drink alcoholic beverages and then make the decision to drive a motor vehicle will make all kinds of excuses and rationalizations. They'll say things like "I'm not drunk, just buzzed," or "I just had a little," or "I feel perfectly fine." ...

This keeps happening and it's sickening. This past weekend, a man with the common sense of a house plant decided to get behind the wheel of a huge Ford Expedition (approximate weight: 7,000-pounds) despite being sopping drunk, blew through a stop sign, crashed into a much smaller car, propelling it into another smaller car...

With the Fourth of July just a little over two weeks away it’s the perfect time to remind Utahn’s to plan for a SAFE holiday.   Just last year, there were 962 DUI-related arrests in July in Utah which was the highest number the state saw all year, according to the DUI Annual Report. In 2021, there ...

It seems like it kind of slid under the radar here in St. George, but a ruling was made in court late last week to sentence the man who caused the death of two young and vibrant human beings last April. John Brett Sartor, who had a blood-alcohol content of ...

(St. George, UT) -- St. George Police say they've arrested a man on suspicion of DUI after a woman was hit by the vehicle the suspect was driving late Thursday night off 2450 East. This happened when the suspect hit the victim and struck two other cars...

(Cedar City, UT)  --  Police say a suspected drunk driver who crashed into another car in front of a Cedar City police station last week had been following the vehicle for miles.  Quentin Redshirt was arrested after he tried to run from the scene.  He is being ...

(Cedar City, UT)  --  Police in Cedar City have arrested two drivers in separate accidents over the weekend and both drivers are being held on DUI charges. The accidents occurred Saturday night. The first accident occurred on northbound Interstate 15, north of Cedar City, when a man driving an SUV came up behind a pickup pulling a horse trailer and collided with the trailer. In the s...

(Cedar City, UT)  --  Utah Highway Patrol has arrested a pickup driver after a wrong-way crash on an Interstate 15 off-ramp. It happened just before 1 a.m. Wednesday in Cedar City. The pickup slammed into a semi that was getting off the highway at Exit 59. Police s...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KDXU) - A St. George woman has been charged with criminal homicide after a crash on I-70 early Sunday killed her 12-year-old child and left her 9-year-old fighting for her life. State troopers say they found the vehicle on the right shoulder of the interstate with both of the children ejected from the car and the driver still in their seat ...