State Police issue more than 10,200 tickets during Labor Day week...

Press Release

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