Highway Patrol to Conduct Operation Slow Down

 

The Highway Patrol will conduct Operation Slow Down for two weeks beginning Tuesday, November 13th. The Highway Patrol will be cracking down on speeders on the interstates and major four lane highways across the state. The Governor's Highway Safety Program and local law enforcement agencies across the state will be conducting No Need 2 Speed in conjunction with Operation Slow Down.

Speed is the leading cause of traffic fatalities and collisions in the state and the Highway Patrol receives numerous citizen complaints concerning motorists traveling at dangerous speeds on the highways. Troopers will be using motorcycles, helicopters, Chargers, and unmarked patrol vehicles for this campaign.

A kick-off press event will be held on Tuesday, November 13, at 11:00 a.m. at the I-40 Hillsborough Weigh Station in Orange County. Bryan Beatty, Secretary of the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, Colonel Fletcher Clay, Commander of the Highway Patrol, and Darrel Jernigan, Director of the Governor's Highway Safety Program will attend the event.

For additional information please call Lt. Everett Clendenin at 919-733-5027.