Fairfax Police Setting Up Sobriety Checkpoint in Reston This Weekend

Fairfax County Police have issued a warning for people driving in Reston this weekend: don't drink and drive, or else.

Police will be setting up sobriety checkpoints this Friday, May 27, in the Reston District from 11 p.m. until 2 a.m.

"Please don't drink and drive," police are pleading in a tweet today announcing the checkpoint.

Memorial Day is one of the deadliest holidays of the year when it comes to drunk driving fatalities. The summer months typically see an increase in the number of vehicles on the roads with more vacations and road trips, and Memorial Day in particular results in a huge amount of crash-related fatalities -- 377 in 2012, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and about four in 10 of those were from drunk driving.

The NHTSA is also in the midst of a "Click It or Ticket" campaign due to a nationwide rise in traffic fatalities. Seat belt use rates have increased to 88.5 percent in 2014, but nearly half of all passenger vehicle occupants who were killed that year didn't have their seat belts on.