During the holiday period and Operation SANTA there was only one fatality reported on Connecticut roads.
Operation SANTA ran from midnight December 23 until midnight December 26 when there were more accidents than last year with 279 this year and 249 last year. The number of accidents where someone was injured was 38 compared to 28 last year.
There were 19 DUI arrests and 243 speeding violations this year. Last year there were 18 DUI arrest and 301 speeding violations.
Troopers said that there was a high volume of traffic over the Christmas holiday, and that enforcement patrols continued throughout the state over New Years Eve.
However, although the fatality figures look small, they do not include two fatalities. One happened on Sunday December 28 when 22 year old Alan J. Alexis from Stratford was killed when thrown from his car in a rollover crash and the previous day, 29 year old John Compton from Bridgeport was killed in an ATV rollover accident on Turkey Roost Road in Monroe.
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