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People are just not heeding that warning,
Drunken driving arrests jumped by 32 percent over the Fourth of July weekend this year in the Bay Area, but police saw no change in the number of fatal crashes
CHP Officer Hector Baiza said numbers climbed last year as well despite public information campaigns seeking to keep people from drinking and getting behind the wheel
Between Friday evening and midnight on Monday, 251 drivers were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence compared with 190 last year, according to the California Highway Patrol
The long weekend may have contributed to a relatively calm celebration in one of the few Bay Area cities that allow the sale and use of "safe and sane" fireworks, devices that generally don't fly or explode
No breakdown of the total was available for San Mateo County, but Santa Clara County had 142 arrests and Contra Costa County had 37 from Friday to Saturday
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