CHP cracking down on speeding with 24-hour statewide 'Maximum Enforcement Period'

The California Highway Patrol volition statesman its 24-hour "Maximum Enforcement Period" (MEP) connected Tuesday greeting arsenic officers people speeding drivers passim the state.

The MEP begins Tuesday astatine 6 a.m. and lasts until Wednesday morning.

Some drivers archer Eyewitness News they can't spend speeding tickets due to the fact that of state prices.

"We're decidedly employing methods to spell up and conserve connected gas," Paula, a motorist, said. "I've ne'er been pulled over, truthful I don't cognize what a big, abdominous speeding summons looks like... maybe, similar 2 miles back, they were already pulling implicit people."

"I don't privation a ticket," Cleve McWright, different motorist, said. "I don't adjacent privation to woody with Highway Patrol, truthful I effort to stay, you know, nether the velocity limit."

Speeding continues to beryllium a unsafe and deadly occupation passim California. Some motorists said they spot drivers acting similar the highways are much similar a NASCAR racetrack.

"It's beauteous bad. Yeah, it definite is, you know. I mean, connected the highways and adjacent connected the aboveground streets," McWright said.

Last year, CHP officers issued much than 491,000 speeding tickets statewide. Preliminary data showed speeding contributed to much than 110,000 crashes, sidesplitting implicit 400 radical and injuring 68,000.

"I deliberation ever radical request to dilatory down," Paula said.

"Speeding continues to beryllium 1 of the starring causes of superior and fatal crashes connected California's roadways," CHP commissioner Sean Duryee said successful a statement. "When drivers take to transcend harmless speeds, they trim their quality to respond and summation the hazard for everyone connected the road. Slowing down is 1 of the simplest steps that drivers tin instrumentality to support themselves and others."

The crackdown comes arsenic the CHP's caller programme with the DMV called Forwarded Actions for Speeding Tickets (FAST) was introduced past twelvemonth successful December. It's designed to rapidly emblem drivers caught going much than 100 mph.

Those cases are automatically sent to the DMV, wherever driver's licenses tin beryllium suspended oregon revoked.