🚗 Goal Zero initiative targets speeding, impaired & distracted driving
🚗 February 23 detail honors Bayonne father and 5-year-old daughter killed in Turnpike crash
🚗 Candlelight vigil marks 10th anniversary of tragic 2016 crash
Goal Zero New Jersey is a statewide high-visibility law enforcement initiative aimed at reaching zero traffic-related injuries and fatalities.
Launched by the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police and spearheaded by Patrolman Matthew Menosky of the Holmdel Township Police Department, this program combines patrols with public awareness to combat impaired, distracted, and speeding driving, as well as other dangerous driving behaviors.
High-visibility police patrols target NJDOT High Injury Network roadways
On Monday, Feb. 23, participating law enforcement agencies with listed roadways in the New Jersey Department of Transportation High Injury Network will be conducting a Goal Zero initiative from 3 to 7 p.m.
Such roadways include Lacey Road in Toms River, Cedar Bridge Avenue in Lakewood, St. Georges Avenue in Linden, Bergen Street in Newark, Morris Avenue in Union, Stokes Avenue in Ewing, and more.
10th anniversary of fatal New Jersey Turnpike crash inspires enforcement effort
The February 23rd Goal Zero detail is dedicated to Tim and Bridget O’Donnell, which will be the 10th anniversary of the crash that took both their lives, Menosky said…