The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is asking motorists to take special care on the roads during this four-day Labor Day weekend.
The Pennsylvania State Police and other local law enforcement will be conducting checkpoints and roving patrols using funding from PennDOT. Troopers will be looking for speeders, impaired drivers, distracted drivers and aggressive drivers.
During the 2019 Labor Day holiday enforcement period, troopers made 610 DUI arrests and investigated 45 crashes statewide in which alcohol was a factor. According to PennDOT data, in 2019, there were 46 fatalities statewide over the long holiday weekend; 19 of those were alcohol-related and three were drug-related.
PennDOT has also announced that all driver license and photo centers will be closed Saturday through Monday in observance of Labor Day. A variety of products and services will still be available through PennDOT’s DMV website at no additional fee.