September 12, 2024
The New York State Police today announced that it issued a total of 10,240 tickets statewide during the Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign.
The special enforcement period began on Friday, August 30, 2024, and ran through Monday, September 2, 2024.
During the campaign, which was partially funded by the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee, State Police utilized sobriety checkpoints, additional DWI patrols, and ticketed impaired and distracted drivers.
In total, troopers arrested 232 people for DWI.
As part of the enforcement, Troopers targeted speeding and aggressive drivers across the state. Below is a sampling of the total tickets that were issued.
Speeding 3,716
Distracted Driving 278
Seatbelt violations 592
Move Over Law 209
During last year’s Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign, which ran from Friday, September 1, 2023, through Monday, September 4, 2023, the State Police issued 8,830 total tickets and arrested 157 people for DWI.
Below is a breakdown of violations by troop:
Troop | Region | DWI Arrests (# of persons) | Speed | Distracted Driving | Child Restraint & Seat Belt | Move Over | Total Tickets (includes other violations) |
A | Western NY | 12 | 352 | 27 | 84 | 6 | 936 |
B | North Country | 9 | 216 | 11 | 28 | 25 | 756 |
C | Southern Tier | 12 | 405 | 10 | 38 | 33 | 832 |
D | Central NY | 29 | 275 | 15 | 33 | 9 | 884 |
E | Finger Lakes | 21 | 332 | 26 | 112 | 7 | 1251 |
F | Western Hudson Valley | 43 | 330 | 16 | 56 | 18 | 910 |
G | Capital Region | 20 | 308 | 35 | 21 | 16 | 807 |
K | Eastern Hudson Valley | 36 | 430 | 18 | 72 | 20 | 963 |
L | Long Island | 22 | 219 | 40 | 25 | 3 | 669 |
NYC | New York City | 3 | 81 | 39 | 13 | 0 | 599 |
T | NYS Thruway | 25 | 768 | 41 | 110 | 72 | 1633 |