The Mountain Home Police Department is one of several agencies across the country getting ready to take part in an initiative from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). “Obey the Sign or Pay the Fine” will begin Monday and continue through July 22nd as the effort to curb speeding on city streets and highways intensifies.
Speeding was a contributing factor to 27 percent of all of the United States’ fatal crashes in 2015, and according to the NHTSA, over 9,500 lives were lost in such crashes. Seventeen percent of all speeding-related traffic fatalities have occurred on local roads where the posted speed limits were 55 miles per hour or less. According to the NHTSA, a crash on a road with a speed limit of 65 miles per hour or higher is more than twice as likely to result in a fatality than a crash on the road with a speed limit of 45 or 50 and nearly five times as likely as a crash on a road with a speed limit of 40 or below. In addition, nearly 15 percent of the country’s speeding-related fatalities occur on interstate highways each year.
During the campaign, officers are expected to intensify the enforcement of posted speed limits. Mountain Home Police Sergeant Bryan Corbett says the department will stop and ticket anyone caught speeding, especially on the unmarked 25 mile-per-hour city streets and the high traffic state and U.S. Highways where most speed related crashes occur.
For more information, go online to trafficsafetymarketing.gov.
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