{"id":14985,"date":"2015-08-21T09:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=14985"},"modified":"2015-08-21T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:11:35","slug":"stepped-up-dwi-patrols-enforcement-now-underway-through-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/stepped-up-dwi-patrols-enforcement-now-underway-through-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepped Up DWI Patrols, Enforcement Now Underway Through Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"statepolice\"<\/a>ALBANY – Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/strong> has directed New York State Police<\/strong> to ramp up enforcement efforts as part of a national crackdown on impaired driving. The 20-day campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, runs from Aug. 21 to Sept. 7 (Labor Day) and is aimed at significantly reducing deaths and injuries caused by motorists driving drunk or impaired by drugs.<\/p>\n

According to the governors office, The New York State Police, together with the important work of local law enforcement, will be vigilant in screening for impaired drivers.<\/p>\n

The Governor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee<\/strong> 2014 annual report<\/a> found that while the number of alcohol-related crash injuries were down in New York State by nearly 800 over a five-year period starting in 2009, 364 people were killed in such crashes in 2013 and about 30 percent of New York\u2019s crash fatalities are alcohol-related.<\/p>\n

Additionally, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/strong>, 10,076 people were killed nationwide in crashes involving a driver with a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 percent or higher 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALBANY – Governor Andrew Cuomo has directed New York State Police to ramp up enforcement efforts as part of a national crackdown on impaired driving. The 20-day campaign, Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over, runs from Aug. 21 to Sept. 7 (Labor Day) and is aimed at significantly reducing deaths and injuries caused by motorists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Stepped Up DWI Patrols, Enforcement Now Underway Through Labor Day","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[122,4753,4754,1694],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/statepolice.jpg?fit=332%2C190&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-3TH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14986,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14985\/revisions\/14986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}