Schuylkill and Carbon County Police Departments, in addition to State Police, are currently participating in aggressive driving enforcement activities as part of the PA Aggressive Driving and Education Program. The first wave enforcement started March 24, 2014 and will continue until May 4, 2014.
Schuylkill County law enforcement agencies from Ashland, Schuylkill Haven, Tamaqua, Butler Township, West Penn Township, Schuylkill Township and West Mahanoy Township are targeting Interstate 81 and routes 61, 309, 901, 209, 183, 895 and 54.
Carbon County law enforcement agencies from Weatherly, Beaver Meadows, Nesquehoning, Lehighton, and Franklin, Kidder and Mahoning townships are targeting routes 443, 248, 93, 903, 534, 209, 54, 4006, 4010 and Interstate 80 where aggressive driving crashes and speeding citations have been identified.
These local police departments will be joining over 330 municipal police agencies and the Pennsylvania State Police to reduce the number of Aggressive Driving related crashes, injuries and deaths on 435 roadways throughout the State. Any aggressive driver stopped by police will receive a ticket.
Municipal police agencies that participated in last year’s campaign wrote 116,191 aggressive-driving related citations, including 54,785 for speeding alone. Disobedience of traffic control devices/signs was the second most-common offense, resulting in 14,452 citations. The extra traffic enforcement also brought about 118 felony arrests, 1,210 DUI arrests and 568 drug-related arrests.
The aggressive driving enforcement is a part of the Pennsylvania Aggressive Driving Enforcement and Education Project and is funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
For more information about the program, visit http://www.patrafficsafety.org/PA-Aggressive-Driving/Wave-1-2014.