State Police Issue More Than 11,000 Tickets During Labor Day Weekend Enforcement Period

The New York State Police today announced that it issued a total of 11,201 tickets statewide during the Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign.

The special enforcement period began on Friday, September 4, 2026, and ran through Monday, September 7, 2026.

During the campaign, which was partially funded by the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee, State Police utilized sobriety checkpoints and additional DWI patrols and focused enforcement efforts on impaired and distracted driving.

In total, troopers arrested 253 people for DWI and investigated 632 crashes, including five fatal crashes.

As part of the enforcement campaign, troopers targeted speeding and aggressive drivers across the state. The following is a sampling of tickets issued during the campaign:

Speeding: 3,935 Distracted Driving: 308 Seat Belt Violations: 746 Move Over Law Violations: 234

During last year’s Labor Day weekend enforcement campaign, which ran from Friday, August 29, 2025, through Monday, September 1, 2025, State Police issued 9,912 total tickets and arrested 225 people for DWI.