Florida Highway Patrol will increase traffic enforcement for Thanksgiving holiday

The Florida Highway Patrol is stepping up traffic enforcement beginning Wednesday as drivers take to the roads for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The enforcement effort, which will see more troopers on Florida's high volume roads, will last five days and coincide with one of the busiest times of the year on the road.

Troopers are looking for impaired driving, speeding, following too closely and other aggressive driving behaviors. They'll also be enforcing seat belt and child restraint laws.

Drive safely, they say. They mean business.

During the same holiday enforcement effort in 2010, troopers arrested 121 drivers for driving under the influence and issued just under 5,000 speeding tickets and 1,400 seat belt citations. Overall, troopers investigated 12,770 violations over a five-day period.