Drivers, Trick-Or-Treaters Urged to Follow Safety Tips on Halloween

Halloween nighttime brings children walking neighborhoods successful hunt of candy, and Bay Area nationalist information agencies are urging drivers to usage caution connected the roads.

Many departments are readying person much officers connected patrol Sunday night, looking for drivers suspected of driving nether the power of intoxicant oregon drugs.

Motorists should thrust slowly, instrumentality other clip looking for trick-or-treaters astatine intersections and astir driveways, and ne'er thrust distracted, advised the San Mateo Police Department.

Parents should marque definite their child's costumes acceptable to forestall trips and falls, and decorate the costumes with reflective tape. In addition, children should transportation flashlights oregon glow sticks to marque it easier for drivers to spot them, constabulary said.

Police besides counsel trick-or-treaters to locomotion connected sidewalks and debar darting into the thoroughfare oregon crossing betwixt parked cars.

People readying to spell to a bar, edifice oregon enactment should person a designated sober driver, usage a ride-hailing service, oregon enactment the night, constabulary said.