Highway Patrol Conducting Operation Slow Down

 

Secretary Reuben Young, North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, and Colonel Walter J. Wilson, Jr., Commander of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, announced that beginning today, the N.C. State Highway Patrol will conduct Operation Slow Down-Interstate Initiative to ticket speeders on North Carolina's interstates. Troopers will conduct the operation starting today through Feb. 22nd to encourage drivers to slow down and follow the speed limit.

 “The purpose of the operation is to reduce speed related collisions on North Carolina Interstates,” said Secretary Young. “During the past four years, 359 motorists have been killed and 14,297 injured in 50,222 collisions on our interstates; speed is the leading cause of those collisions.”

Stepped-up enforcement and patrols will be conducted across the state, focusing on motorists speeding on interstates and major four-lane highways.

 “Troopers are determined to reduce fatal collisions in North Carolina by going after speeders who recklessly endanger our citizens,” said Colonel Wilson. “Speeding is the leading causes of traffic deaths and collisions in our state. Operation Slow Down will help in our efforts to reverse that trend.”

Dangerous driving can be reported to the Highway Patrol by dialing *HP on cellular phones from anywhere in the state.

For more information about Operation Slow Down, visit the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety's web site at www.nccrimecontrol.org/shp.