ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 State Police are cracking down on drunk driving this holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
Troopers say make sure you have a safe way to get home and designate a sober driver or use a ride share if you\u2019re going to drink. Troopers are working with local law enforcement to run checkpoints across the state.<\/p>\n
Troopers will also be on the lookout for drivers using their phones. Last year, more than 10,000 people got a ticket. The average arrest for drinking and driving costs about $10,000.<\/p>\n
According to police<\/a>, drunk drivers cause over 17,000 deaths annually, and over 30% of deadly crashes are linked to alcohol in New York State.<\/p>\n For more information on this holiday weekend\u2019s drunk driving initiative, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n RELATED: Independence Day events this weekend: Irondequoit festival, Brighton July 4th 5K, fireworks, and more<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0nysp<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0drunk driving<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 State Police are cracking down on drunk driving this holiday weekend. Troopers say make sure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8077,9,11,10,49,51,50,3905],"class_list":["post-286895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-drunk-driving","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-nysp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}