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New York State Police, Local and County Law
Enforcement to Crack Down on Impaired and Reckless Driving this Memorial
Day Weekend
Published: May 22, 2026 at
03:30 p.m.
By: Press Release
from New York State Police
New York State Police, Local and County Law
Enforcement to Crack Down on Impaired and Reckless Driving this Memorial
Day Weekend
The New York
State Police, along with other local and county law enforcement will
increase patrols to combat drunk, impaired, and reckless driving throughout
this Memorial Day weekend. The special enforcement period starts on Friday,
May 22, 2026, and runs through Monday, May 25, 2026. The extra patrols
during this period are being funded through GTSC grants. 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 our highways.
Drivers can
expect to see sobriety checkpoints and increased patrols by State Police
and local law enforcement agencies during this holiday
weekend. Troopers will be using both marked State Police vehicles and
Concealed Identity Traffic Enforcement (CITE) vehicles as part of this
crackdown to more easily identify motorists who are violating the law. CITE
vehicles allow the Trooper to better observe driving violations.
These vehicles blend in with everyday traffic but are unmistakable as emergency
vehicles once the emergency lighting is activated.
On Memorial Day
weekend in 2025, Troopers arrested 245 people for driving while impaired,
issued 12,062 total tickets, and investigated 774 crashes, which resulted
in three reported fatal crashes.
This initiative
is partially funded by the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC). The
GTSC and the New York State STOP-DWI Foundation remind motorists that
their “Have a Plan” mobile
app is available for Apple, Droid and Windows smartphones. The app
enables New Yorkers to locate and call a taxi service and program a
designated driver list. It also provides information on DWI laws and
penalties, and a way to even report a suspected impaired driver.
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