FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police arrested 95 drivers suspected of driving under the influence during a nearly three-week period through Labor Day weekend as part of a national \u201cDrive Sober or Get Pulled Over\u201d enforcement campaign.<\/p>\n
The Fresno Police Department said the mobilization included additional officers on patrol to take suspected impaired drivers off the road. <\/p>\n
Of those arrested in Fresno, 11 drivers were cited for driving under the influence of drugs, and three were cited for a combination of alcohol and drugs.<\/p>\n
In addition to patrols, the department held DUI checkpoints on August 22nd<\/a> and August 29th<\/a> that led to 24 DUI arrests.<\/p>\n Statewide, drunk driving remains a major traffic safety concern. Drunk driving crashes accounted for 34% of all traffic deaths in California in 2024, which equates to about four people killed every day.<\/p>\n Police also warned that impairment can be caused by more than alcohol, including cannabis products, illicit drugs, and even prescription and over-the-counter medications.<\/p>\n In California, first-time DUI charges average $13,500 in fines and penalties and could include a suspended license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno police arrested 95 drivers suspected of driving under the influence during a nearly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-457409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457409","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=457409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}