Area police agencies are gearing up for the July 4th holiday launching their holiday traffic enforcement program. Police departments will be focusing on both drunk and unbuckled drivers.

State Police will push the intensified enforcement effort emphasizing late-night hours as statistics show a disproportionate number of traffic deaths occur late at night and involve a drunk driver and/or unbuckled motorist. The crackdown is part of the statewide, Independence Day Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over and Click It or Ticket effort.

City and village police and sheriff's police will join Illinois State Police in a statewide enforcement effort that runs through July 6th.

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