Report Lists Top Reasons Why Avon Police Pull Vehicles Over

Editor’s Note: We ran this previously, but wanted to bring it back in case you missed it.

Speeding is the reason cited for more than anything else for why officers pull motorists over in Avon.

A recent report by the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project looked at traffic stop data across Connecticut police departments for a 12 month period that ended on Sept. 30, 2014.

Avon Police had the seventh lowest rate of traffic stops out of departments across the state. They made 48 stops per 1,000 residents.

About 41 percent of the stops were speed-related; 12 departments had a higher ratio for speed-related stops.

In addition, 9.1 percent of the stops were for a stop sign violation, 7.3 percent for defective lights, 7.2 percent for a moving violation and

Near the lower end only 2.4 percent of stops were made for cell phone use. Statewide the average is 9 percent.

Throughout the study period about 70 percent of stops resulted in a warning and 17.5 percent resulted in an infraction being issued.