Fatal crashes down, injury crashes up in 2024: Bakersfield PD
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — There was a decrease in fatal crashes in 2024, but an increase in injury crashes, according to the Bakersfield Police Department.
Assistant Chief Brent Stratton with the Bakersfield Police Department says the number of fatal DUI crashes decreased by 58% and the number of fatal crashes, not involving an impaired driver, were down 17%, compared to the previous year.
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However, injury collisions were up in Bakersfield 2024, according to BPD.
'Traffic is one of the areas we continue to assign officers where their sole duty is 40 hours a week to be focused on traffic enforcement. We're working through that via patrol car,' Stratton said, at the city council meeting Wednesday evening. 'We've been able to expand our motor program. We believe our motors are able to do a lot of traffic enforcement that is much more difficult to do in a patrol car.'
Stratton told the city council that with the city's support, the department has been able to add officers to the force every year.
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