Crime & Safety

Update: Final Enforcement Stats For Holiday Weekend

Stats From The State Police.

Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police has some sobering statistics from the Thanksgiving weekend on the state’s roads.

State police are stepping up their enforcement of drunken driving violation, arrests of aggressive drivers, and tickets for seatbelt violations and inattentive driving.

For the holiday weekend, troopers made 1,376 speeding arrests, and 417 seatbelt arrests.

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They’ve gave tickets for 2,745 other moving violations, including unsafe lane changes, following too closely, using cell phones while driving, and failing to signal, among others.

State police reported 65 arrests charging driving while under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.

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They responded to 9,728 calls for service and investigated 389 accidents, 50 of which involved injuries. Two people died in car crashes, one on Rt. 66 in Marlbourgh and another on Rt. 15 in East Hartford.

Last year over the same weekend, there were 2,255 speeding tickets, 3,411 hazardous moving violations, 80 DUI charged, 391 accidents including 57 injuries, and one fatality.


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