{"id":301938,"date":"2010-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/sdpd-warns-public-of-dui-checkpoint\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T08:00:00","slug":"sdpd-warns-public-of-dui-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/sdpd-warns-public-of-dui-checkpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"SDPD warns public of DUI checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 The San Diego Police Department\u2019s (SDPD) Traffic Division will crack down on holiday drunken driving with a DUI checkpoint tonight, Dec. 17, from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m., according to a police statement. The location of the checkpoint has not yet been released, however. Downtown was the site of a November checkpoint and Pacific Beach was the site of a checkpoint on Friday Dec. 10, said Traffic Division Officer Mark McCullough. The Pacific Beach checkpoint involved 24 officers who arrested 16 suspected drunken drivers. Alcohol-impaired deaths account for the largest category of overall vehicle fatalities, despite traffic deaths having declined by 23 percent between 2007 and 2009 \u2014 from 3,995 fatalities to 3,081, according to the statement. Drivers who see a possible drunk driver are urged to call 9-1-1. The DUI checkpoint was funded by a grant from California Office of Traffic Safety. <i>\u2014Debbie Hatch<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO \u2014 The San Diego Police Department\u2019s (SDPD) Traffic Division will crack down on holiday drunken driving with a DUI checkpoint tonight, Dec. 17, from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m., according to a police statement. The location of the checkpoint has not yet been released, however. Downtown was the site of a November checkpoint [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"SDPD warns public of DUI checkpoint","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}