The New York State Police and local law enforcement statewide will be stepping up patrols to combat drunk and impaired driving this Memorial Day weekend, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.
Memorial Day is one of the busiest travel holidays of the year and police will be out in force to remove impaired and reckless drivers from the highways. The initiative starts on Friday, May 27 and runs until Monday, May 30.
“There is zero tolerance for reckless and impaired driving and state police and local law enforcement will be out in full force to help ensure a safe holiday weekend,” Cuomo said. “I encourage all New Yorkers to stay safe and celebrate responsibly in order to help keep our roads safe and prevent senseless tragedies.”
Cuomo said drivers can expect to see sobriety checkpoints and increased patrols by state police and local law enforcement agencies during this holiday weekend.
According to the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee, drunk driving killed 317 people and injured more than 5,600 others in New York State in 2014. Another 188 people were killed in drug-related crashes.
Troopers will be using both marked state police vehicles and what authorities call “Concealed Identity Traffic Enforcement” (CITE) vehicles to more easily identify motorists who are violating the law.
On Memorial Day weekend in 2015, troopers arrested 187 people for drinking and driving, and issued more than 12,000 tickets. In addition, 33 counties participated in the Memorial Day crackdown resulting in 141 DWI/DWAI arrests, 16 DWAI-drug only arrests, 147 other arrests, and 1,874 summonses for violations of vehicle and traffic laws.
Topics New York Law Enforcement
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