Traffic Safety

Your need for speed will be best spent on a high school or college track, because if it's on the roads or you've got the phone to the ear while driving, you will now be more likely to get a ticket on Monmouth County roads.

Statewide Hit and Run Advisory Program, similar to Amber and Silver alerts for missing children and seniors, is signed into law.

A decade after New Jersey enacted its ‘move over’ law, it is looking for ways to get more drivers to comply – including motor vehicle points, for some.

A heads up for bus drivers or parents driving kids to school in Brick, Police have announced a new traffic pattern in effect at Veterans Memorial Elementary and at the Middle School Complex.

A scary moment for a Manchester police officer caught on dash-cam video in early November is now being shared by the department to remind drivers about the Move-Over Law in New Jersey.

There are many rules to the road and they're in place for safety reasons to protect both you and I and the many other who walk, bike, run or drive on New Jersey roadways. There are four situations in particular many of us come to face with on a daily basis.

The concerted traffic-safety push in, and near, Seaside Heights during March's Saint Patrick's Day festivities produce no serious crashes - and a sizable number of traffic tickets, arrests and calls for police response, according to data from the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.

I don't think that many would argue that it feels like driving on Ocean County's roads is scarier than ever. Between texting, speeding, and, well, this mess, it sometimes feels like you almost have to speed just to keep up with what's going on around you. So I asked a few friends of mine who are police officers or who work with police what the wiggle room is before you're guaranteed a ticket. Read

Speed limits increase this spring on most of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and at least one New Jersey lawmaker is eyeing the possibility of the same change here.

Just this afternoon, a teenager in Brick was on the sidewalk for a stroll on Sally Ike Road when her day almost took a tragic turn. A driver plowed into her, throwing her several feet. Thankfully, a terrible ending was avoided, but it was all due to something that I see way too often on Ocean County's roads.