COLUMBUS — According to provisional statistics from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, nine people were killed on Ohio’s roadways this Thanksgiving holiday.
The five-day reporting period, from Wednesday, Nov. 25, through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29, nine people were killed in nine fatal crashes. One of the fatal crashes occurred on County Road 54 in Logan County on Friday evening, as previously reported in the Examiner.
In 2019, there were 15 fatal crashes in which 18 people were killed.
Of the nine claimed in crashes this year, two were pedestrians, four were not wearing a seat belt and two involved impaired driving.
Also throughout the holiday reporting period, troopers arrested 298 people for operating a vehicle while impaired and 193 for drugs.
Troopers also issued 944 safety belt and 146 distracted driving violations. In addition, troopers also assisted 2,135 motorists.
In Logan County, troopers conducted 97 interactions with motorists during the Thanksgiving reporting period.