BUI arrests up from last year at Seafair
Aug 8, 2011, 2:26 PM | Updated: Oct 10, 2012, 7:28 am
Washington State Patrol says there were at least 554 boats on Lake Washington over the weekend, and they made more Boating Under the Influence arrests this year than last year.
“There was more this year, and a lot of the officers attributed it to the weather,” Trooper Cliff Pratt says.
Over the course of the weekend, according to Pratt, troopers and officers on the water made 71 BUI arrests.
Two of the arrests came from the same boat. “Two BUIs out of the same boat in the same is a rarity,” Pratt says,
but it’s something we’ve ran across.
Out on the water, some people used a different plan to make sure they enjoyed the day.
Pratt says some boat owners hired drivers so that they could enjoy alcoholic beverages without the pressures of driving their own boat.
