New York State Police and local law enforcement agencies statewide are participating in a national enforcement initiative to eliminate impaired driving during this year’s Super Bowl celebrations.
The Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee funds the campaign, which began Tuesday and runs through Super Bowl Sunday. Along with increased patrols and sobriety checkpoints to deter, identify and arrest impaired drivers, police will target speeding, distracted driving and other reckless driving behaviors.
According to Hochul, “We want all New Yorkers celebrating Super Bowl LX to plan ahead, have a designated driver, or be the designated driver.”
During last year’s Super Bowl weekend campaign, law enforcement officers arrested over a thousand people for impaired driving and issued nearly fifty thousand total tickets.