{"id":66694,"date":"2016-03-27T06:26:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T10:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66694"},"modified":"2016-03-26T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T21:31:06","slug":"state-police-release-results-of-st-patricks-day-enforcement-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66694","title":{"rendered":"State Police release results of St. Patrick\u2019s Day enforcement period"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"contentArtDisplay\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nyspmaint.tekgroup.com\/help\/graphics\/OFFICIAL%20NYSP-Logo%202012.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>NEW YORK STATE POLICE<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Joseph A. D&#8217;Amico<\/div>\n<div>Superintendent<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Beau Duffy,\u00a0Director of\u00a0Public Information\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><u><\/u>The New York State Police announced that it issued more than 17,000 tickets during this year\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day enforcement initiative.\u00a0The campaign ran for a total of 143 hours, starting on Saturday, March 12, and continuing until Thursday, March 17.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During the campaign, which was funded by the Governor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee, the New York State Police utilized sobriety checkpoints, additional DWI patrols, and underage drinking and sales to minors details. State Police also ticketed distracted drivers who use handheld electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>State Troopers arrested 257 people for DWI and investigated 947 accidents, which resulted in 243 people being injured and four fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the enforcement, Troopers also targeted speeding and aggressive drivers across the State. Below is a sampling of the total tickets that were issued.<\/p>\n<p>Speeding: 6,422<br \/>\nDistracted Driving: 627<br \/>\nSeatbelt violations: 503<br \/>\nMove Over Law: 159<\/p>\n<p>During last year\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day enforcement period, which ran for a total of 120 hours, the State Police issued 14,113 tickets and arrested 264 people for DWI.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK STATE POLICE Joseph A. D&#8217;Amico Superintendent Beau Duffy,\u00a0Director of\u00a0Public Information\u00a0 The New York State Police announced that it issued more than 17,000 tickets during this year\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Day enforcement initiative.\u00a0The campaign ran for a total of 143 hours, starting on Saturday, March 12, and continuing until Thursday, March 17. During the campaign, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}