This year’s Labor Day holiday was a lot safer than last year, when two people where killed in traffic accidents, according to state trooper reports.

Officials at the Craig Field Trooper Post reported that of the 14 accidents reported in the period from Friday to 4 p.m. Monday, none of them ended in fatalities. They did report that 13 people were injured.

Last year, 24 accidents occurred in the Selma area alone, and two died.

Before the holiday weekend began, Selma police and area state troopers launched an effort to prevent traffic accidents over the holiday weekend.

The two agencies conducted line patrols, saturation patrols and safety checkpoints in an effort to prevent as many accidents as possible.

The goal was to put as many law enforcement officials on the streets as possible during the weekend.

Both agencies funded overtime hours for patrolling officers through a federal grant administered by ADECA to the Central Alabama Highway Department.

While ADECA administers a similar grant every year, this year was marked by a greater emphasis on traffic safety, with an estimated 1,300 expected to be injured or killed on Alabama roads this year.

State troopers went into overdrive on interstate highways at the end of August, with one trooper posted every 10 miles along I-65. During a 12-hour period, troopers wrote 374 tickets, combined with hundreds more from local county and city officers who helped with the detail.

Col. Mike Coppage, director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, said troopers plan to study the locations of fatal wrecks and concentrate enforcement in the most dangerous areas.

According to state figures, 15 people were expected to die over the holiday weekend. As of presstime, figures on how many fatalities occurred weren’t available.

Last year, during the Labor Day weekend, eight people died as a result of traffic accidents in Alabama.