{"id":99461,"date":"2019-03-06T11:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=99461"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T16:16:13","slug":"impaired-driving-crackdown-runs-march-15-through-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=99461","title":{"rendered":"Impaired driving crackdown runs March 15 through 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><em><strong>County to participate in statewide STOP-DWI St. Patrick\u2019s Day enforcement effort<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mad-Co-Sheriffs-Dept-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42450\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Madison County Sheriff Todd Hood announced today that\nMadison County police agencies will participate in a special enforcement effort\nto crackdown on impaired driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statewide STOP-DWI effort starts March 15 and will end March\n18, 2019. St. Patrick\u2019s Day weekend is a notoriously deadly period for impaired\ndriving, due to the number of celebrations and drivers on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State and local law enforcement agencies will be out in\nforce in this across-the-board effort to reduce the number of alcohol-related\ninjuries and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The St. Patrick\u2019s Day heightened enforcement is one of many\nstatewide enforcement initiatives promoted by STOP-DWI New York and the\nGovernor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee; this partnership has allowed local\nprograms to significantly increase their enforcement and public awareness\nefforts, also targeting Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Halloween and winter\nholiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While STOP-DWI efforts across New York have made great\nstrides in reducing the numbers of alcohol- and drug-related fatalities, many\nlives continue to be lost because of crashes caused by drunk or impaired\ndrivers. Download the free mobile app \u201cHave a Plan\u201d at stopdwi.org\/mobileapp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County to participate in statewide STOP-DWI St. Patrick\u2019s Day enforcement effort Madison County Sheriff Todd Hood announced today that Madison County police agencies will participate in a special enforcement effort to crackdown on impaired driving. The statewide STOP-DWI effort starts March 15 and will end March 18, 2019. St. Patrick\u2019s Day weekend is a notoriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}