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News & Notes: Police implement year-end campaign to crack down on drunk driving

The annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” holiday statewide campaign will begin this Friday as local and state law enforcement officials will conduct saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints to watch for potentially intoxicated motorists.

The program seeks to combine high-visibility enforcement and public education about the dangers of drinking and driving.

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Twenty-two percent of all motor vehicle fatalities in New Jersey were alcohol-related last year, with about 10,000 deaths nationally.

In Princeton, there were 62 arrests for DWIs in 2013 and 71 in 2012. The majority of these are committed by young people late at night, according to last year’s town crime report.

Princeton Police Chief Nick Sutter said that impaired driving typically increases by almost 10 percent during the holiday season.

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