Connecticut has consistently ranked in the top three-to-five states with the highest number of impaired driving fatalities each year.
“It’s a major issue in Connecticut,” said Eric Jackson, executive director of the CT Transportation Institute at the University of Connecticut. “And probably over the last 15 to 20 years, we’ve not had a noticeable decline in the number of impaired driving fatalities.”
The COVID-19 pandemic made things worse, he said. Data is still being reviewed, but according to traffic experts, it was clear that Connecticut experienced an increase in impaired driving incidents during COVID.
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