With Memorial Day weekend upon us, we have one observation for New Jersey motorists: The Garden State is no paradise when it comes to drunk drivers, speeders and other hapless recipients of tickets and summonses from our traffic enforcement community. Intoxicated drivers in particular beware, according to the National Motorists…
Lyndhurst — A 52-year-old New Jersey man was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol last week on Thursday evening when police found the allegedly intoxicated suspect in his car, which was parked and partially blocking the roadway on New York Avenue. In addition to drunk driving, he was…
East Rutherford — A 29-year-old local man was picked up for drunk driving in the late evening of Wednesday, May 6, following a minor accident on Patterson Avenue. The allegedly intoxicated driver was arrested for DWI, as well as for not maintaining a vehicle in safe condition, failure to produce a…
The most recent sobriety roadblock in Monmouth County was in force this past Friday night and Saturday morning on Route 36 in West Long Branch. The county’s DWI Task Force was working in concert with the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety to identify and pull over intoxicated drivers…
A suspected drunk driver steered her speeding SUV within inches of a Branchburg Township police officer as he was conducting another traffic stop the evening of April 10. The obviously intoxicated driver of the SUV was later found to have 14-year-old minor riding with her, police said. The incident occurred on…
A 39-year-old man from Hohokus, New Jersey, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated early Friday morning after a traffic stop on Albany Post Road in Cortlandt, NY. State Troopers charged the man and 11 other motorists with DWI during a string of traffic stops in Westchester and Putnam counties…
In New Jersey, DWI checkpoints are a common method used by police to help reduce the number of alcohol-related traffic accidents and fatalities throughout the state. To maintain fairness under the law, our courts have required state, county and municipal law enforcement authorities to publish the times and locations of future…
Professional indoor soccer player, Mathew J. Maher, of the Philadelphia Kixx was recently arrested and charged with drunk driving and allegedly causing the death of a Pennsylvania man on the Atlantic City Expressway earlier this month. According to police, Maher, 24, of Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey, was driving a…
Carlstadt — A 68-year-old man from Astoria, New York, was arrested March 21 at 12:18 a.m. for DWI, drunk driving within 1,000 feet of a school zone, and parking in a no-parking zone. The man was charged and later released to the custody of his wife. East Rutherford — On…