. >> blue volvo station wagon just passing you now. blue volvo station wagon just passing you now. >> reporter: in some cases drivers got out with a warning. this man was just that lucky after getting stopped for hitting 82 miles per hour. >> i was just trying to keep up with traffic. there was a guy i thought was going a little bit slow so i just took off around him and that's all it took. >> reporter: this area near highway 12 is a rough spot for traffic. >> just around this corner south of where we are standing backs up all the time. so we get people 80, 90 miles per hour coming southbound. next thing they know they are coming into stopped traffic. >>> dui arrests are up this weekend they have seen improvements. >> we have seen a reduction, though, in fatal crashes and crashes in general. so that just shows us this kind of enforcement does pay off for us and for the public. >> reporter: while thanksgiving is a big effort for this weekend christmas eve and new year's will be if not as big, bigger. john sasaki, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>