4-13-2024 11:56pm

Warren County Made The Top 10 Counties for Distracted Driving Citations

Beth Callahan Editor

WARREN COUNTY, OH -- The Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) joined forces with other members of the 6-State Trooper Project to focus on distracted driving enforcement. During the project, 1,255 people in Ohio were charged with distracted driving, with Warren County being in the top ten counties with violations during the time period of Monday, April 1 at 12:01 a.m. and continued through Monday, April 8 at 11:59 p.m.

Licking County - 129 violations
Lorrain County - 117 violations
Medina County - 80 violations
Stark County - 79 violations
Cuyahoga County - 64 violations
Portage County - 54 violations
Wayne County - 49 violations
Mahoning County - 46 violation
Ashland, Summit and Warren Counties - all three had 42 violations

The distracted driving enforcement effort included the Indiana State Police, Kentucky State Police, Michigan State Police, Pennsylvania State Police, West Virginia State Police and OSHP. Collectively, troopers from the 6-State Trooper Project cited 1,895 people during the enforcement effort.

The 6-State Trooper Project is a multi-state law enforcement partnership aimed at providing combined and coordinated law enforcement and security services in the areas of highway safety, criminal patrol and intelligence sharing.

A complete breakdown from Ohio’s enforcement can be found here and here for the compiled results.