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Saturday, November 1, 2025 1:16AM
It's the spookiest time of the twelvemonth and since neighborhoods volition beryllium filled with Trick-or-Treating children, radical are encouraged to beryllium other cautious.
CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's the spookiest time of the twelvemonth and since neighborhoods volition beryllium filled with Trick-or-Treating children, radical connected the roadworthy are encouraged to beryllium other cautious.
"Even those areas wherever houses whitethorn look a small much dispersed apart, inactive look for the pedestrians. Our ghosts and goblins are our astir precious possessions retired there. We wanna marque definite they bask themselves, get their treats and not excessively galore tricks from the atrocious drivers," says California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Salas.
The California Highway Patrol has each disposable officers connected patrol statewide.
It's portion of their 12-hour max-enforcement period.
Last year, implicit 120 radical were arrested connected suspicion of Driving Under the Influence.
The CHP besides investigated 500 crashes.
90 of those progressive were impaired drivers, causing galore injuries and claiming 2 lives.
"It's alarming to us, it should beryllium alarming to our community, but again, conscionable trying to support everyone safe, spreading that connection of work and making definite we ticker retired for those pedestrians," explains Officer Salas.
AAA says Halloween is 1 of the astir unsafe nights of the twelvemonth for some pedestrians and drivers.
But the risks are adjacent higher this year, since it falls connected a Friday.
People are encouraged to program up and beryllium acceptable successful lawsuit determination is much postulation than usual.
"Time unit is decidedly 1 of the biggest factors for accidents. You know, nary substance wherever you're going tonight, you privation to springiness yourself a batch of other clip truthful you're not successful a rush. You know, program for delays, springiness yourself a small spot of other question time. That'll truly assistance support things harmless for everybody, you know, for different drivers and for pedestrians," mentions Julian Paredes, a spokesperson with AAA.
AAA reminds radical that impaired driving and distracted driving are among the starring causes of crashes.
The CHP Max-Enforcement play volition spell done time morning.
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