{"id":129595,"date":"2026-02-11T01:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129595\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:36:15","slug":"new-york-state-police-issue-more-than-8000-tickets-during-super-bowl-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129595\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police issue more than 8,000 tickets during Super Bowl weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WBNG) &#8212; The New York State Police issued 8,263 tickets during its Super Bowl enforcement initiative. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">From Friday, Feb. 6, through Sunday, Feb. 8, state police increased patrols and conducted sobriety checkpoints to identify and arrest impaired drivers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the initiative, troopers arrested 177 drivers for DWI and investigated 822 crashes, including one fatal incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers also targeted speeding, aggressive driving and other dangerous driving behaviors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The following tickets were issued across the state:<\/p>\n<p>Speeding: 2,395Distracted driving: 287Seatbelt violations: 267Move over law violations: 115<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the Southern Tier, troopers arrested 11 drivers for DWI and issued a total of 603 tickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The following tickets were issued in the Southern Tier:<\/p>\n<p>Speeding: 194Distracted Driving: 11Child restraint and seatbelt violations: 27Move over, law violations: 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Funded by the Governor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC), the initiative was carried out in collaboration with local law enforcement agencies across the state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WBNG) &#8212; The New York State Police issued 8,263 tickets during its Super Bowl enforcement initiative.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-129595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}