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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The California Highway Patrol successful the Madera country volition beryllium implementing a 12-month enforcement and acquisition campaign, aiming to trim the fig of crashes and fatalities successful its jurisdiction.
The Fatal Reduction Through Education and Enforcement (FREE) run began connected Oct. 1 and volition extremity connected Sept. 30, 2025. The run volition absorption connected postulation crashes and superior clang factors attributed to impaired driving, improper turning, unsafe speed, and wrong-side-of-the-road driving.
According to CHP, 106 radical were killed and 2677 were injured successful reportable crashes wrong the CHP Madera country jurisdiction betwixt 2020 and 2023. Of those people, 53 were killed and 423 were injured arsenic a effect of driving nether the influence.
Madera country CHP says they volition absorption connected further enforcement connected Highway 41, Highway 99, Highway 145 and Highway 152, arsenic good arsenic rural, unincorporated roadways. Officers adhd they volition proceed their collaboration with section proscription readying agencies, assemblage organizations, legislative members, nationalist information agencies, and the commercialized trucking manufacture to trim the fig of radical killed and injured successful postulation crashes wrong their jurisdiction.
The FREE campaign, CHP says, volition besides incorporated a nationalist acquisition and consciousness run to reenforce the harmless driving message.
Madera country CHP says this run volition beryllium funded done a assistance from the California Office of Traffic Safety done the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
