New York – New York State Police say they issued 17,447 tickets during their five-day “Operation Hang Up” distracted driving crackdown.
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
From April 10 through April 15, troopers were on the lookout for drivers using cell phones, not properly buckled up, violating the “Move Over” law or driving while impaired or distracted.
They issued 2,752 tickets for talking or texting on a cell phone, 5,557 for speeding, 187 for driving while intoxicated, 924 for safety restraint violations, and 223 for failing to move over when passing police pulled over on the shoulder.
Nothing else then money
they are getting ready for the summer rush
Now you know why they are hated.
As the great philosopher and poet Lipa Shmeltzer says:
Oh oh oh can you hang up the phone!
Someone needs remedial math classes. The article claims there were 17,447 tickets issued but if you add up all the ones listed it only comes out to 9,643.
i wish that other acts being done while driving would be ticketable. i have seen men using electric shavers, women putting on make up and people with a newspaper spread over the steering wheel…..dangerous for sure!