CRYSTAL LAKE – The Crystal Lake Police Department will conduct a Independence Day traffic enforcement, focusing on both drunk and unbuckled drivers.

The intensified enforcement will focus on late-night hours because statistics show a disproportionate number of traffic deaths occur late at night and involve a drunken driver, unbuckled motorist or both.

The crackdown is part of the statewide Independence Day Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over and Click It or Ticket effort.
Crystal Lake police will join the Illinois State Police and more than 200 other local police and sheriff’s departments in a statewide enforcement period, which begins Friday and runs through Wednesday.