{"id":28929,"date":"2025-10-29T18:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:19:01","slug":"california-highway-patrol-to-launch-12-hour-halloween-maximum-enforcement-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28929\/","title":{"rendered":"California Highway Patrol to launch 12-hour Halloween Maximum Enforcement Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The California Highway Patrol is set to launch a 12-hour Maximum Enforcement Period for Halloween night into Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the Maximum Enforcement Period, officers will be deployed and protecting from and preventing impaired driving. The enforcement period is scheduled from 6 p.m. Oct. 31 to 6 a.m. on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials with the highway patrol said during 2024\u2019s Halloween Maximum Enforcement Period, officers investigated nearly 500 crashes statewide. During the period, officers made nearly 120 DUI arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About 90 of the 500 crashes involved impaired drivers. From those, two people died and more than 60 were injured, according to CHP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Penalties for impaired driving include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mandatory DUI education programs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you see someone who appears to be driving impaired, call 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kget.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KGET 17 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 The California Highway Patrol is set to launch a 12-hour Maximum Enforcement Period for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,859,14299,12951],"class_list":["post-28929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-enforcement","tag-impaired-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}