San Diego DUI criminal defense lawyers and San Diego DUI criminal defense attorneys hear California Highway Patrol officers had a harder time finding drunken drivers during this Christmas holiday, likely due to the rain that kept many people off the roads. From 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Friday, officers nabbed 17 drivers for DUI in San Diego County, compared to 76 drivers during the same period last year.

Drunken driving arrests in San Diego County were down by more than three-quarters over the Christmas holiday this year, as compared with the same period in 2007, the California Highway Patrol reported Friday.

From 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 Friday morning, officers with the state agency arrested 17 motorists on suspicion of driving while intoxicated in the region. Last year, the CHP made 76 DUI arrests locally.

There were no traffic fatalities on San Diego-area freeways and back-country roads over the 36-hour span.

Statewide, 11 people died in auto accidents, and the Highway Patrol arrested 409 drivers on suspicion of driving.

Are San Diego's roads safer? Or didn't San Diego DUI police want to get wet a couple of those rainy nights? According to San Diego nightclubs, they were very crowded and people were drinking.

San Diego Criminal Defense Attorney Rick Mueller recently spoke at the California Attorneys For Criminal Justice annual DUI seminar in Rancho Mirage, California: http://www.cacj.org/Events/forms/DUI%20Brochure%20Final.pdf . The California criminal defense lawyers who attended informed the President of the California DUI Lawyers Association that San Diego California DUI criminal defense attorney Rick Mueller was excellent.

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