The Labor Day weekend is typically one of the most dangerous holiday periods of the year on Iowa roads. Patrick Hoye, chief of the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau, says traffic crashes over this last holiday weekend of the summer often involve drunk drivers.

 

Nationally, statistics show around 40-percent of crash fatalities over this holiday involve an impaired driver. Hoye says police across Iowa have pledged to step-up enforcement efforts through Monday.

 

While there were just three fatalities on Iowa roadways over the Labor Day holiday last year, Hoye noted there were seven people killed in crashes in Iowa over the same period in 2015.