Sheriff's Department

The Lane County Sheriff's Department issued their report on Activity at the Oregon Country Fair, and it appears that fairgoers need to wear their seatbelts, buy automobile insurance and drive slower. However, more fairgoers had licenses and auto-insurance than last year, plus there was one fewer DUII than last year. Kudos.

Here's the report:

Over the course of the weekend Sheriff's deputies assigned to work the area of the Oregon Country Fair on both grant funded overtime as well as during their regular shifts issued about 409 traffic citations: 167 citations for failure to wear safety belt, 49 citations for driving uninsured or failure to provide proof of insurance, 18 citations for driving while suspended or not having a valid driver's license, 74 for speed violations and 62 for miscellaneous other moving violations. 4 DUII's were arrested.

Citations for driving uninsured and for driving while suspended or not having a valid license were down by about 50% from last year. All other categories stayed largely consistent, with safety belt cites slightly up, and speed and other moving violations slightly down. There was 1 fewer DUII arrest this year from 2007.