State Police Release Holiday Traffic Stats

(Middletown, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – State Police saw an uptick in speeding violations and investigated more crashes during the recently concluded Thanksgiving holiday period over last year.
Troopers say the holiday enforcement netted 1,010 speeding citations this year when compared to the 896 handed out last year.
Also, they reported 524 crashes from 12:01 Wednesday morning to midnight on Sunday. Last year, there were 392 crashes investigated.
Seventy of those crashes resulted in injury