Saturday, April 20, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
Tickets for using a cell phone while driving were issued at a much higher rate by police and sheriff’s deputies in St. Lawrence County than elsewhere in the North Country in 2012, according to Gov. …
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Tickets for using a cell phone while driving were issued at a much higher rate by police and sheriff’s deputies in St. Lawrence County than elsewhere in the North Country in 2012, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.
A total of 1,515 tickets for cell phone use by a driver behind the wheel were issued in St. Lawrence County, compared to 1,767 tickets in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and Hamilton counties combined.
The breakdown was 468 in Clinton, 178 in Essex, 284 in Franklin, 8 in Hamilton, 682 in Jefferson, and 147 in Lewis County.
As of June 1 this year, the figures say, police in St. Lawrence County have passed out 339 tickets for driver cell phone use.
If the figures are accurate, that represents a huge relative decline in the county this year so far. Tickets issued through June 1 of this year in the other six North Country counties totaled 756.
Last year, over 30,000 tickets were issued in the state for texting-while-driving – a 234 percent increase from 2011.
