Old Bridge, Sayreville, Red Bank Boost DWI Patrols This Season

OLD BRIDGE, NJ — It's never a good idea to drink and drive, but in these nearby towns you really better watch out this month.

That's because these Central Jersey towns were given increased state funding to pay for more DWI patrols this holiday season. The New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety selected 112 towns across the state to receive grants totaling $656,340.

The money will go to pay for enhanced patrolling and high-visibility sobriety checkpoints during the month of December. It has to be used by the beginning of January.

In Middlesex County, the towns are:

• Dunellen, Middlesex $6,000
• East Brunswick, Middlesex $7,200
• Edison, Middlesex $7,200
• Metuchen, Middlesex $6,000
• Monroe, Middlesex $6,000
• North Brunswick, Middlesex $6,000
• Old Bridge, Middlesex $8,400
• Sayreville, Middlesex $7,200
• South Brunswick, Middlesex $6,000

And only four towns in Monmouth received the funding. They are:

• Allentown, Monmouth $6,000
• Brielle, Monmouth $6,000
• Englishtown, Monmouth $6,000
• Red Bank, Monmouth $6,000

It is up to each town when they start the patrols and on what roads.

There were 559 people killed in traffic crashes in New Jersey in 2019, and 129 of those crashes involved drunk drivers, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.