Thousands of Tickets Issued, Hundreds of Accidents Reported in Connecticut Over Memorial Day Weekend

The holiday weekend is now over and Connecticut State Police released their final crime and traffic stats for the Memorial Day holiday weekend on Tuesday.

The enforcement project started at 12:01 a.m. on Friday and ran through midnight Monday.

State Troopers focused on drunken driving violations, aggressive drivers, distracted drivers and speeding.

Sobriety checkpoints and targeted DUI patrols were in place over the entire weekend.

There were 1,254 speeding offenses, 1,454 seatbelt citations, and 549 hazardous moving violations, which included unsafe lane changing, following too closely, cell phone and texting offenses.

There were 57 DUI arrests, 285 accidents including 49 with injuries and two fatal accidents reported over the the past four days.

This means over the past 24 hours 261 speeding offenses, 298 seatbelt citations, 75 hazardous moving violations, 5 DUI arrests, and 38 accidents reported.

By way of comparison in 2014 over the Memorial Day weekend 1,248 speeding offenses were reported, 954 seatbelt offenses, 4,142 hazardous moving violations, 54 DUI arrests, 301 accidents including 54 with injuries and no fatal accidents.

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