{"id":187246,"date":"2026-04-06T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187246\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:59:07","slug":"new-york-state-police-launch-distracted-driving-crackdown-april-6-13-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187246\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police Launch Distracted Driving Crackdown April 6-13 | Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"New York State Police\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762370649_714_67a50c2d274ac.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) &#8212; New York State Police will step up enforcement against distracted driving as part of a national campaign this April.<\/p>\n<p>According to NYSP, the \u201cPut the Phone Away or Pay\u201d campaign will run from April 6 through April 13.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers will focus on drivers using electronic devices and will use both marked vehicles and Concealed Identity Traffic Enforcement vehicles to spot violations.<\/p>\n<p>CITE vehicles help troopers observe drivers from an elevated position and blend into regular traffic until emergency lights are activated.<\/p>\n<p>The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that more than 3,200 people died in distraction-related crashes across the country in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>During the April 2025 campaign, New York State Troopers issued 22,867 tickets, including 4,607 for distracted driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) &#8212; New York State Police will step up enforcement against distracted driving as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27336,30821,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,3905],"class_list":{"0":"post-187246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-april","9":"tag-distracted-driving","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-new-york-state-police","17":"tag-nysp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187246","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=187246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}