SALT LAKE CITY — Troopers in Utah arrested 33 drivers for DUI on New Year’s Eve and in the first few hours of 2020.

The majority were pulled over in Salt Lake County, where an enforcement blitz netted a total of 18 arrests, said Cpl. Colton Freckleton with the Utah Highway Patrol.

The tally does not include DUI arrests made by local police agencies.

Freckleton said he brought a driver to the Salt Lake County Jail during the blitz and spotted officers from several other agencies there who had made similar arrests.

“I can’t imagine the impact we as law enforcement made last night,” he said.

Last year, the Utah Highway Patrol reported 11 DUI’s on New Year’s Eve.

Freckleton did not know Wednesday how many of this year’s arrests were potentially linked to a driver’s blood alcohol level between 0.05% and 0.08% under Utah’s lowest-in-the-nation threshold. The lower limit took effect a year ago.