NC Highway Patrol crackdown ends in over 40K charges

CHARLOTTE — North Carolina’s Labor Day Booze It and Lose It campaign led to more than 40,000 charges and 3,000 warnings.

The two-week State Highway Patrol initiative focused on driving while impaired, speeding, driving without a seatbelt and more.

From Aug. 31 through Sept. 13, troopers issued:

  • 781 DWI charges
  • 12,523 speeding charges
  • 3,457 restraint violations
  • 2,783 reckless driving charges
  • 2,203 driving while license revoked charges
  • 93 Move Over violations
  • 4,572 commercial vehicle enforcement inspections

Troopers also say they responded to over 10,000 calls for service and investigated 4,169 crashes, including 19 that were fatal.