Crime & Safety
Wear Your Seatbelt, Drive Carefully This Weekend
State Police are stopping cars and taking names — You don't want to be on their list.
Connecticut State Troopers supplement normal patrol force with additional State Troopers over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. The operation runs from midnight, Wednesday, Nov. 23 through midnight Sunday, Nov. 27.
Troopers patrol all roads and highways across Connecticut and will focus on drunk driving violations and target aggressive drivers.
Sobriety checkpoints and targeted DUI patrols will be in place over the entire weekend. State Police will continue this preventive enforcement effort until the end of the Holiday season.
So far, the Thanksgiving holiday statistics are as follows:
• 482 speeding arrests
• 189 seatbelt arrests
• 1,020 moving violation arrests, including unsafe lane change, following too close, cell phone use and failure to signal.
• 22 drunken driving arrests
• 228 accidents investigated; 23 with injury; no fatals
• 4,521 calls for service.
These numbers are down significantly from 2010, with the only increase in seatbelt violations.
• 2,255 speeding arrests
• 151 seatbelt arrests
• 3,411 moving violations
• 80 drunken driving arrests
• 391 accidents; 57 with injury; 1 fatal.
Remember, wear your seatbelt and mind the rules of the road, the police are watching.
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