CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Many travelers spent Monday returning from the Labor Day weekend with traffic hangovers.

“I took my daughter to college and it was kind of fun, in a way with an asterisk," Liz Oakes of New York said. “It was OK on the highway, but once I got in the city, you could barely even move. "

But Connecticut officials said the roads were safer this year than in years past.

Signs along the Connecticut highways state that there have been 154 deaths from crashes on highways so far this year.

That is a decrease from 224 through August last year, according to the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT), as the state has been cracking down on wrong-way drivers, DUI enforcement, and high-speed drivers.

Weary drivers can also be an issue, but one traveler had a solution t

See Full Page