CHP launches statewide Speed Prevention Campaign

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The California Highway Patrol is focusing connected 1 of the astir unsafe behaviors connected the roadways, speeding, by launching a statewide Speed Prevention Campaign, "PUMP THE BREAKS."

"The occupation is there. We nonstop the connection retired and we are sending officers retired to hopefully dilatory the postulation down," said California Highway Patrol Officer Mike Salas.

"We privation you to pump the brakes and truly instrumentality a look astatine that speedometer and marque definite you are traveling astatine a harmless velocity retired there."

New CHP Dodge Durangos are rolling retired crossed the state, and Fresno has two.

They service arsenic a instrumentality to drawback speeders, making them cleanable for this campaign.

The archetypal Durango was enactment to usage astir a period ago...Salas says officers successful that Durango person issued 1,000 tickets successful Fresno County alone.

The 2nd Durango has been connected the roadway for astir a week.

"This 1 is not acold behind, and again, it's not a sneak attack. We are putting it retired determination and privation you to know," said Salas.

Salas says these efforts are astir redeeming lives.

According to the CHP's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System, much than 116,000 crashes were the nonstop effect of unsafe velocity past twelvemonth alone.

Those crashes resulted successful astir 500 victims killed and implicit 48,000 radical injured.

"This twelvemonth alone, CHP has already written 247,000 speeding tickets, and 47,000 of those person been implicit 100mph."

On June 1st, a reckless operator crashed into a stopped commercialized motortruck connected the enarthrosis of Highway 99 adjacent Fresno Street.

"It was a melodramatic crash, the operator sustained precise superior injuries, and thing that could person been easy prevented by pumping those brakes and truly respecting the roadworthy and everyone other connected there."

This weekend's enforcement kicks disconnected astatine 6 americium connected Saturday until 6 americium connected Sunday.

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