{"id":375863,"date":"2026-10-17T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375863\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:04:24","slug":"new-york-state-police-over-10000-tickets-issued-during-columbus-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375863\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police: Over 10,000 tickets issued during Columbus Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York State Police say they issued over 10,000 tickets and arrested 200 people for driving while intoxicated during Columbus Day Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 New York State Police say they issued 10,803 tickets across the state during its Columbus Day Weekend enforcement campaign.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/crime\/new-york-state-police-target-impaired-distracted-driving\/71-01a0b609-d6c1-4a05-9569-8a276d371215\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Police to target impaired and distracted driving during holiday crackdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the enforcement period, which ran from October 9-12, troopers used sobriety checkpoints, increased DWI patrols, and ticketed drivers who were using their phones.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say they arrested 200 people for driving while intoxicated and investigated 768 crashes, four of which were fatal.<\/p>\n<p>Across the state, the following tickets were issued:<\/p>\n<p>Speeding: 4,605Distracted Driving: 274Seat Belt and Child Restraint 430Move Over Law: 225                    <\/p>\n<p>In Western New York, troopers reported the following violations:<\/p>\n<p>DWI Arrests: 6Speeding: 333Distracted Driving: 23Child Restraint and Seat Belt: 32Move Over: 9Total Tickets issued: 935Total Penal Law Arrests: 35                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Police say they issued over 10,000 tickets and arrested 200 people for driving while intoxicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-375863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375863","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=375863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}