STURGIS, S.D. – The South Dakota Highway Patrol has released their Monday Rally statistics report and D.U.I. and drug arrests remain down over last year.
The patrol reported 38 D.U.I. arrests in its latest reporting period, along with 65 misdemeanor drug arrests and 33 felony drug arrests.
However, the patrol has issued 478 citations so far this year – ahead of last year’s 471 on this date.
Since Saturday, the patrol has reported 20 injury accidents – with 7 of those happening Sunday. Of those seven, 4 resulted in serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. There have been 7 non-injury crashes so far this year.
The patrol lists just the one fatality from Saturday on their report, although a couple of accidents resulted in fatalities this past week before the reporting period began.