Connecticut
2025 statistics: Impaired driving increasing in Connecticut
MERIDEN, Conn. (WTNH) — For decades, police have been arresting drunk drivers and measuring their blood alcohol levels.
But in October, the Connecticut Forensic Lab started testing all impaired drivers for drugs, and even the experts were shocked by what they found.
“It’s not simply alcohol combined with one drug combined with alcohol,” Dr. Jessica Gleba, the director of Forensic Lab Operations, said. “We are seeing multiple drugs used together and often combined with alcohol.”
Fentanyl and carfentanyl use are on the rise and the data shows people are combining multiple drugs at an alarming rate.
“The data revealed, in 2025, 14% of cases analyzed had 10 or more drugs present, an increase compared to 2022, when the number was 6%,” Gleba said.
Approximately 50% of cases in 2025 had five or more drugs detected, according to the Connecticut Forensic Lab.
Not only is the state lab finding more and more combinations of drugs in impaired drivers, Connecticut is also seeing more fatal accidents caused by impaired drivers.
Across the country, around 30% of fatal crashes are caused by impaired drivers. Joe Cristalli, Jr., the CTDOT Highway Safety Office director, said Connecticut is well above that.
“The impaired rate is 40% – between 37% and 40% – and we’re one of the highest in the country,” Cristalli said.
It is the season for holiday parties, but it is also cold and flu season, and over the counter medicine can impair your driving, especially combined with alcohol.
The message from law enforcement is clear.
“If you are caught, you will be arrested, you will be presented for prosecution, which means you’re going to have to appear before a judge in the State of Connecticut,” commissioner Ronnell Higgins of the Deptartment of Emergency Services & Public Protection said. “I don’t know how clearer I can be.”
In other words, don’t drink or use drugs and get behind the wheel.
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) – Dave Matthews Band’s U.S. tour will make a stop in Connecticut this summer.
The band scheduled a show for July 25, 2026 at The Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford, Live Nation announced on Tuesday.
The band’s tour starts on June 10 in New York and wraps up Labor Day weekend in Washington State.
Online ticket presale for members of the DMB Warehouse Fan Association started Tuesday at 9 a.m.
General on sale for tickets begins on Friday, Feb. 20, at 10 a.m. Check out LiveNation.com for more.
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NEW YORK – Track school closings and delays for Tuesday, Jan. 27 in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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List of school closings and delays
New York
- Byram Hills School District: 2-hour delay
- Central Islip School District: 2-hour delay
- East Islip School District: 2-hour delay
- Haverstraw-Stony Point School District: 2-hour delay
- Liberty Central School District: 2-hour delay
- Mattituck Jr. / Sr. High School: 2-hour delay
- Newburgh City School District: closed
- Poughkeepsie City School District: 2-hour delay
- Tuckahoe School District: 2-hour delay
New Jersey
- Barnegat Township School District: closed
- Bergenfield Elementary School: 2-hour delay
- Bergenfield Middle and High School: 2-hour delay
- David Gregory School: 90-minute delay
- Englewood City School District: 2-hour delay
- Essex Co. Vocational School District: 2-hour delay
- Fair Lawn Schools: 90-minute delay
- Hackensack School District: 2-hour delay
- Hoboken School District: 90-minute delay
- Jefferson Township School District: 2-hour delay
- Kinnelon Borough School District: 2-hour delay
- Livingston Township School District: 2-hour delay
- Memorial Day Nursery-Paterson: closed
- Middletown Township School District: 2-hour delay
- Mount Carmel Guild Academy: 90-minute delay
- Neighborhood Child Care Center: 2-hour delay
- Pequannack Township School District: 2-hour delay
- Ridgefield Park ATC: no transportation
- Riverdale Public Elementary: 90-minute delay
- Somerset Co. Educational SVCS. School District: 90-minute delay
- Springfield Adult Training: no transportation
- Springfield Township School District: 2-hour delay
- Tewksbury Township School District: 2-hour delay
- The Jardine Academy: 90-minute delay
- The Phoenix Center: closed
- Totowa School District: 1-hour delay
Connecticut
- Bridgeport Board of Education: closed
- Norwalk High School: closed
NEW YORK – Several inches of snow fell on Sunday across the Tri-State area, and observations from the National Weather Service are showing totals across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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Final snow totals
By the numbers:
The agency is detailing snowfall measurements as of Monday morning.
- Astoria 10.1 in
- Battery Park 7.5 in
- Bay Ridge 10.2 in
- Bellerose 10.5 in
How much snow did NYC get this weekend?
- Central Park 11.4 in
- Crown Heights 8.0 in
- Elmhurst 9.0 in
- Flatbush 11.3 in
- Fordham 13.5 in
- Howard Beach 11.0 in
- Midwood 9.0 in
- NYC/JFK 10.3 in
- NYC/La Guardia 9.7 in
- Sheepshead Bay 10.5 in
- Sheepshead Bay 9.7 in
- Throgs Neck Bridge 12.5 in
- Washington Heights 14.9 in
- Whitestone 11.1 in
- Williamsburg 12.0 in
- Williamsburg 10.5 in
- Bergenfield 11.5 in
- Cliffside Park 14.4 in
- Cranford 11.2 in
- Englewood 15.0 in
- Franklin Lakes 13.5 in
- Glen Ridge 9.5 in
- Harrison 10.0 in
- Hoboken 9.8 in
- Kearny 7.4 in
- Leonia 14.7 in
- Linden 9.6 in
- Little Ferry 13.9 in
- Mahwah 14.5 in
- Montclair 9.5 in
- Montvale 12.5 in
- Newark 12.1 in
- North Caldwell 11.5 in
- Nutley 9.0 in
- Park Ridge 12.8 in
- Pompton Lakes 14.0 in
- Ridgefield 15.8 in
- Ringwood 15.0 in
- River Vale 13.3 in
- Secaucus 12.0 in
- Teaneck 15.5 in
- Tenafly 16.3 in
- Union 11.0 in
- Waldwick 12.5 in
- Wallington 10.2 in
- Wanaque 13.0 in
- Wayne 14.0 in
- West Milford 15.0 in
- Westfield 10.0 in
- Westwood 12.5 in
- Wood-Ridge 10.0 in
- Bethel 15.7 in
- Bridgeport Airport 15.1 in
- Danbury 15.5 in
- Easton 14.3 in
- Greenwich 11.0 in
- New Canaan 12.6
- New Fairfield 16.0 in
- Newtown 10.5 in
- Newtown 13.7 in
- Norwalk 13.5 in
- Ridgefield 14.0 in
- Shelton 15.0 in
- Stamford 11.0 in
- Stratford 12.0 in
- Weston 12.9 in
- Wilton 13.8 in
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