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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After Fresno County ran a Traffic Safety Campaign, caller information revealed the fig of fatalities dropped successful Fresno County.
Fresno County has been among the starring counties successful the authorities successful the fig of postulation fatalities.
"It comes down to radical driving excessively fast, driving nether the power and driving portion distracted," Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig said.
The Traffic Safety Campaign involving the County, Fresno County Sheriff's Office and the District Attorney's bureau started successful November and ran done the extremity of December.
"My goal, my anticipation is that we tin enactment unneurotic arsenic a assemblage to beryllium mindful of these 3 precise elemental facts and for radical to enactment those facts into signifier and we tin proceed to prevention lives successful 2025," Magsig said.
The Fresno Area CHP bureau totaled 79 fatal car accidents successful 2024.
"These are families that these radical beryllium to that are going to beryllium breached forever," Magsig said.
Magsig said that fig is present down 50%.
"I was amazed that conscionable by reminding the public, utilizing billboards, utilizing television, utilizing the radio, was capable to prevention much than 1 life," Magsig said. "It's important for us, for government, for the media, conscionable to proceed to repetition that connection to dilatory down, get a designated operator if you've been drinking and enactment your telephone down portion you're successful your car."
Magsig said portion the simplification successful wide deaths is encouraging the region volition proceed its inaugural to forestall much collisions from happening.
