On Long Island, a driver was back in court to face numerous charges including drunk driving in a deadly crash on the Southern State Parkway.
Police say the victim's mother was driving under the influence and was fleeing an attempted traffic stop for driving the wrong way.
Eyewitness News rode along with Suffolk County police as they patrolled some of the deadliest streets in the state and set up sobriety checkpoints to get drunk drivers off the roads.
Prosecutors say Steven Schwally was the driver seen on surveillance video, whose car sped and flew into a nail salon in Deer Park.
Three people were killed, and eight others were injured after a suspected drunk driver plowed his vehicle into a park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.