Franklin, Montgomery and Clark counties rank among the worst counties in Ohio for OVI arrests, or operating a motor vehicle while impaired.

In fact, with 800 arrests, Franklin County, which includes Columbus, had more OVI arrests than any other county in Ohio through November for 2006.

That number according to a recently released report from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, which lists the top ten, or worst ten counties in Ohio for drunk driving.

Franklin County sits at number one, Montgomery County comes in at number seven with 612 arrests, and Clark County rounds out the top ten with 565 arrests.

Lorain and Mahoning counties came in at number two and three respectively.

132 OVI arrests have been made in Logan County so far in 2006. Shelby County comes in at 175, Auglaize 135, Union 87, Hardin 81 and Champaign 73.

Franklin County also ranks as the 7^th worst in Ohio with 21 felony OVI arrests, which includes offenders with four or more OVI convictions.

Those stats were taken from January 2005 through November 2006.

Through November troopers had made 24,051 OVI arrests for 2006.

This article was written by Mark Strayer, and can be found at http://www.peakofohio.com/content/view/2152/50/