With Halloween falling on a Saturday, local police set to crack down on impaired or reckless drivers

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Halloween will fall on a Saturday for the first time since 2020. As families across the Rochester area prepare for a busy night, police are preparing to keep the roads safe. Somershire Drive, a neighborhood in Irondequoit where residents have created a tradition of decorating their lawns for Halloween, will be shut down to traffic on Saturday to keep trick-or-treaters safe. However, most neighbors will remain open to traffic. RELATED: See News10NBC s guide to family-friendly Halloween events in the Rochester area Children ages 4 and 8 are 10 times more likely to be hit by a car on Halloween than on any other night, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. News10NBC’s Kristi Blake spoke with Irondequoit Police Chief Scott Peters about how the department is preparing. “We do have a lot of extra patrols or whatever full contingency of officers taking their calls for service, Peters said. We are putting officers. We actually