California Highway Patrol and local parents urging people to be safe this Halloween

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Neighborhoods crossed the Central Valley are ever filled with trick-or-treaters connected Halloween night.

As hundreds formal up and caput to communities crossed Tulare County looking for thing sweet.

The California Highway Patrol is urging radical to beryllium careful, whether driving a conveyance oregon retired walking around.

"Get a caput start, particularly erstwhile the prima is up this mode they are a small much disposable arsenic they commencement transitioning into the Darker hours of the night. We urge having flashlights oregon immoderate benignant of reflective material, particularly erstwhile coming up to intersections wherever determination aren't crosswalks," said CHP Officer Adrian Gonzalez.

The CHP says this twelvemonth determination are much officers retired connected patrol, helping support everyone safe.

"Our citations are up implicit 50%, our DUI arrests are up 12% and wide for the 4th our fatalities are down 40%," explained Officer Gonzalez.

One section Visalia parent, Jennifer Alvarez, says she volition beryllium other cautious passim the night.

She's urging drivers to beryllium vigilant and is asking anyone who is drinking to deliberation doubly astir getting down the wheel.

"You tin interruption up a family. You tin perfectly destruct a household doing so, truthful calling an Uber oregon making definite you program up to person that sober operator oregon being the sober operator oregon adjacent making definite that you're watching retired for your friends successful that concern is decidedly important," said Jennifer.

The Visalia Police Department volition besides person a maximum enforcement play starting Thursday night.

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