{"id":30790,"date":"2025-10-30T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30790\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:10:08","slug":"take-it-easy-on-spirits-this-halloween-chp-out-in-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30790\/","title":{"rendered":"Take it easy on spirits this Halloween \u2013 CHP out in force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/0.CHP3_.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0.CHP3_.jpg\" alt=\"CHP cruiser at night with lights on. Labor Day\" class=\"wp-image-246377\"  \/><\/a>A California Highway Patrol cruiser. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n<p>Halloween revelers who risk driving while intoxicated in San Diego County could face scary consequences, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chp.ca.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Highway Patrol<\/a> warned Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In an annual effort to keep intoxicated motorists and other traffic scofflaws off local freeways and unincorporated roadways during the holiday, the CHP will conduct a 12-hour \u201cmaximum enforcement\u201d operation beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, the state agency advised.<\/p>\n<p>All available officers will be on duty over the period, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Halloween, we\u2019re asking everyone to do their part before the festivities begin,\u201d CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee said, \u201carrange a sober ride, and help us keep California\u2019s roads safe for everyone who uses them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the comparable period last year, roughly 500 traffic accidents, two of them fatal, occurred in the CHP\u2019s jurisdictions statewide, with nearly 100 caused by DUI suspects, and 120 drivers were arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s Halloween or any night of the year, the decision to drive sober can save a life,\u201d Duryee said. \u201cTogether, we can make our roads safer and prevent tragedies before they happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California Highway Patrol cruiser. (File photo courtesy of OnScene.TV) Halloween revelers who risk driving while intoxicated in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[859,585,22626,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-30790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-halloween","tag-maximum-enforcement","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790","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=30790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}