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Ohio Highway Patrol Reports Fewer Deaths and Accidents During the Holidays

Ideastream Public Media | By Jo Ingles

Published January 2, 2018 at 5:50 PM EST

Ohio’s roads were safer during the 2017 Christmas and New Year holidays than last year.

The State Highway Patrol says five crashes resulted in five deaths from Dec. 22nd to Christmas Day. That’s less than half of the 14 deaths registered in the same window in 2016.

This New Year holiday was also safer. The patrol reports three people died from Dec. 29^th through New Year's Day. Last year, six people lost their lives during that same period. Troopers also arrested 292 motorists for drunk or drugged driving during the four-day Christmas period, slightly more than the number arrested over the New Year's holiday.

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Jo Ingles

Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment. Jo started her career in Louisville, Kentucky in the mid 80’s when she helped produce a televised presidential debate for ABC News, worked for a creative services company and served as a general assignment report for a commercial radio station. In 1989, she returned back to her native Ohio to work at the WOSU Stations in Columbus where she began a long resume in public radio.

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