{"id":155005,"date":"2026-04-02T03:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155005\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:44:22","slug":"troopers-to-target-aggressive-distracted-drivers-during-easter-holiday-enforcement-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155005\/","title":{"rendered":"Troopers to target aggressive, distracted drivers during Easter holiday enforcement | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 As the Easter holiday weekend approaches, Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) are advising the public to slow down, pay attention and exercise caution on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>PSP Troop M \u2013 Bethlehem announced that the official Easter holiday enforcement period begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, April 3, and concludes at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 5.<\/p>\n<p>PSP officials say the action is part of a safety initiative known as P.A.D.E.E.P (Pennsylvania Aggressive Driving Enforcement Education Program) and targets aggressive drivers, speeders, seat belt violations and child seat belt infractions.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers will be concentrating their efforts on drivers using mobile devices while operating a vehicle as well as careless or distracted drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials will also focus on apprehending those driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n<p>During Easter holiday enforcement in 2025, Troopers throughout Pennsylvania investigated 532 motor vehicle crashes and made 282 driving under the influence arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 As the Easter holiday weekend approaches, Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) are advising the public to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[8009,153,155,154,18837,42863,28,1224],"class_list":{"0":"post-155005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-aggressive-driving","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-dui","13":"tag-easter","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}