Police Make 57 Drunken Driving Arrests Memorial Day Weekend

State police made 57 drunken driving arrests Memorial Day weekend, marking a slight increase over last year.

In heightened traffic enforcement that started at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, May 22, state police have been targeting drunken driving, aggressive driving, distracted driving and speeding offenses. Sobriety checkpoints were set up across the state and the enforcement will run through 11:59 p.m. on Monday, May 25.

As of 12:15 p.m. on Sunday, state police issued 1,254 speeding tickets, 1,454 seatbelt violation tickets and 549 hazardous moving violation tickets for offenses like unsafe lane changes, following too closely, cell phone use and texting, Seventeen have been arrested on driving under the influence charges.

There were 285 accidents, including 49 with injuries and two fatal crashes.

By comparison, in 2014, police issued 1,248 speeding tickets, 954 tickets for seatbelt violations and 4,142 tickets for hazardous moving violations.

Fifty-four people were arrested for drunken driving Memorial Day weekend in 2014. There were 201 crashes investigated that year, including 54 with injuries, but none were fatal.

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