Hillsborough Had Fourth Highest Citation Rate In Statewide Cell Phone Crackdown

During New Jersey’s statewide crackdown on cell phone use while driving, Hillsborough had the fourth highest amount of citations in the state with 222 tickets.

The operation called “UDrive.UText.UPay” ran from April 1 to 21 and resulted in 8,318 tickets issued statewide - 1,745 of those tickets came out of Somerset County, according to My Central Jersey.

The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office made an announcement in late March that they would be cracking down extra hard on drivers who used their cell phones in April in honor of National Distracted Driving Awareness month, according to nj.com.

“They’ll be no more written warnings beyond this simple message: Our officers will be out there in force, and if you choose to violate the law, they will stop you and issue you a ticket,” Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano said in his announcement.