{"id":79488,"date":"2025-12-23T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79488\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:25:08","slug":"new-york-state-police-enforce-drive-sober-campaign-until-january-1-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79488\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police Enforce ‘Drive Sober’ Campaign Until January 1 | Public Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UTICA, N.Y. — New Yorkers are being reminded about the ongoing “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, which seeks to remove impaired drivers from roads this holiday season.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the initiative, funded by the Governor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee, will continue through Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

The campaign includes DWI checkpoints and patrols, with officers also monitoring for speeding, distracted driving and violations of the Move Over Law.<\/p>\n

To ease travel, temporary lane closures for road and bridge projects on New York State highways will be suspended from 6 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24 to 6 a.m. Monday, Dec. 29, and again from 6 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31 to 6 a.m. Monday, Jan. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n

The Move Over Law, expanded in March 2024, requires drivers to slow down and move over for vehicles stopped along the road.<\/p>\n

Texting stops and service areas along State highways support efforts to reduce distracted driving.<\/p>\n

The New York State Thruway Authority will offer free coffee and hot tea to travelers from 11 p.m. New Year\u2019s Eve through 7 a.m. New Year\u2019s Day to promote safe driving.<\/p>\n

All 27 service areas on the New York State Thruway are open, and drivers can plan their stops using the Thruway Authority’s website or mobile app, which provides real-time traffic updates.<\/p>\n

During last year\u2019s crackdown, law enforcement issued 129,686 tickets statewide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. — New Yorkers are being reminded about the ongoing “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[610,9,11,10,49,51,50,39512,530,27],"class_list":["post-79488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-public_safety","tag-state","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}