5 years, 11 months ago by Scott Hardy
IL State Police plan patrols, and MSHP planning extra patrols on Highway 61
The local District of the Illinois State Police say you’ll see them on the roads this upcoming holiday weekend.
ISP District 20 Commander, Captain Jon Dively, says his troopers will be strictly enforcing the most common traffic violations that result in fatal crashes. They include speeding, DUI, seat belts and distracted driving. The ISP is also taking part in the Click it or Ticket seat belt campaign now through June 3rd. And on Friday, the ISP will kick off a nationwide, four-day Combined Accident Reduction Effort. Dively says that Operation CARE tries to lower the number of crashes by strictly enforcing alcohol and drug-related offenses; maximum speed limit laws and seat belt laws. Dively says that in 2017, the ISP wrote over 3 thousand speeding tickets during the Memorial Day weekend, made 96 DUI arrests and wrote over 530 seatbelt violations.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says you’ll likely see a trooper Friday and Monday if you drive on Highway 61.
The Patrol says that in addition to Operation CARE, which will be in effect through the holiday weekend, it will have troopers at 20-mile intervals along Highway 61 Friday and Monday. Troopers will also be highly visible along Interstates 29, 44, 55 and 70. In a statement, Highway Patrol Superintendent Colonel Sandra Karsten says that troopers taking part in the holiday peak travel crash reduction enforcement project will be alert for all traffic offenses, and be especially vigilant to aggressive driving violations.
Karsten says that last year during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, nine people died and 496 were injured in over 11 hundred traffic crashes on Missouri roads.
