State Police: Accidents Increase Over New Year's Weekend

FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- The Connecticut State Police were kept busy over the holiday weekend with special enforcement to help keep the roads safe for travelers.

Connecticut State Police wrote more than 2,000 tickets just for moving violations over the holiday weekend.
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K Reakes

01/04/2016 12:30 p.m.

The operation ended at 11:59 p.m. Sunday with the following statistics:

Accidents: 215 with 27 injuries.
Fatality: 1.
DUI arrests: 33.
Speeding: 1,097.
Seat belt: 35.
Hazardous moving violations (following too close, distracted driving, cellphones, etc.): 2,470.

Last year's totals were: accidents, 158, total, with injury, 28; fatality, zero; DUI arrests, 38; speeding, 726; seatbelts, 22; and hazardous moving violations, 1,593.

The one fatality occurred about 6:25 a.m. Jan. 1 on the northbound Wilbur Cross Parkway/Route 15 at Exit 68 west in Meriden, state police said.

Cesar Bonet, a 54-year-old Meriden resident, got out of his car on the right shoulder of the exit to help a motorist who had struck a deer and was hit and killed by another car while standing on the side of the road.

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