New Mexico is participating in a multi-state campaign to make travel on Interstate 40 safer over the Thanksgiving holiday period.
According to the State Police, that agency, the New Mexico Motor Transportation Police and the state Department of Transportation will join law enforcement agencies in seven other states participating in the campaign.
It's called the "Interstate 40 Challenge: The Drive toward Zero Fatalities."
The campaign increases patrols along I-40 over 12-hour periods on Wednesday and Sunday -- the holiday period's busiest travel days.
In New Mexico, there will be at least one officer every 20 miles along I-40. The State Police will also conduct saturation patrols and field sobriety checkpoints across the state.
Other states participating in the I-40 campaign include Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
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