The Mississippi Highway Patrol recently released its traffic numbers for the New Year’s holiday enforcement period.
Statewide, troopers issued a total of 1,276 citations over the holiday weekend with 44 DUI tickets.
There were 94 accidents reported with four fatalities and 24 injuries.
The fatalities were in Jasper County on Interstate 59 and in Jefferson Davis County on US-Hwy 84.
According to Cpl. Tony Dunn, Troop D out of Greenwood, wrote 240 citations and worked five accidents that injured two people,