The Division of Highway Traffic Safety has awarded $505,500 in grants to 98 law enforcement agencies for the purposes of enhanced patrols and sobriety checkpoints.
Your holiday drive through Atlantic County and Egg Harbor Township is likely to be met with beefed up patrols looking out for drivers being naughty and driving while intoxicated this month.
Six Ocean County law enforcement agencies, 10 each in Monmouth and Burlington and seven in Atlantic County plan to step up the watch on drunken and impaired drivers during New Jersey's "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" crackdown that starts Friday and continues through Labor Day Weekend.