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State Police Issue More Than 9,900 Tickets Statewide During
Labor Day Weekend Enforcement Period
Published: September 10, 2025
at 03:30 p.m.
By: Press Release
from New York State Police
State Police Issue More Than 9,900 Tickets During
Labor Day Weekend Enforcement Period
The New York
State Police today announced that it issued a total of 9,912 tickets
statewide during the Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign.
The special
enforcement period began on Friday, August 29, 2025, and ran through
Monday, September 1, 2025.
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 225 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
3,519
Distracted
Driving 311
Seatbelt
violations 485
Move Over
Law 211
During last
year’s Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign, which ran from Friday,
August 30, 2024, through Monday, September 2, 2024, the State Police issued
10,240 total tickets and arrested 232 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
|
13
|
280
|
14
|
50
|
7
|
905
|
|
B
|
North Country
|
8
|
270
|
7
|
34
|
23
|
796
|
|
C
|
Southern Tier
|
17
|
346
|
18
|
41
|
27
|
845
|
|
D
|
Central NY
|
27
|
278
|
20
|
52
|
9
|
989
|
|
E
|
Finger Lakes
|
13
|
363
|
22
|
43
|
20
|
996
|
|
F
|
Western HV
|
37
|
315
|
19
|
51
|
12
|
881
|
|
G
|
Capital Region
|
15
|
399
|
21
|
24
|
20
|
949
|
|
K
|
Eastern HV
|
22
|
280
|
12
|
11
|
5
|
591
|
|
L
|
Long Island
|
21
|
239
|
34
|
10
|
1
|
614
|
|
NYC
|
New York City
|
13
|
64
|
14
|
17
|
1
|
499
|
|
T
|
NYS Thruway
|
39
|
685
|
130
|
152
|
86
|
1847
|
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