DE - Launches 120 Days of Summer HEAT Campaign till 9/14

[StlouisX50]

OHS Launches 120 Days of Summer HEAT Campaign
Increased enforcement on traffic violators starts next week
By Katie Wais
Staff Writer

DOVER — Starting next week, police are ready to turn up the heat on Delaware traffic violators.

For a second year, State Highway Safety officials are launching “120 Days of Summer HEAT” (Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic), a high-visibility traffic safety initiative aimed at reducing traffic deaths and injuries.

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The umbrella traffic initiative is intended to unify Delaware’s three primary safety campaigns conducted during the summer months, which include Click It or Ticket, Checkpoint Strikeforce and the Stop Aggressive Driving campaign.

“As we head into summer, the roads will be crowded with both residents and out of state visitors. Given the high number of traffic deaths we experienced in the first three months of this year, we need the public to understand that we’re taking a zero tolerance approach to traffic violations with the end goal of saving lives,” said Tricia Roberts, Director of the Delaware Office of Highway Safety (OHS).

OHS will begin by turning up the HEAT on unbelted motorists starting next week, then in July the HEAT will simultaneously be on impaired drivers and aggressive drivers.

During the first year of the “120 Days of Summer HEAT” initiative, which ran from early May through the Labor Day weekend, officers from law enforcement agencies statewide made 225 DUI arrests, 983 Aggressive Driving arrests, and issued 2,930 seat belt citations.

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[Maestro]

What they are really doing it catch all the out of state drivers who happen to pass through DE trying to get to the shores in Maryland, VA and NC.

I almost got caught in this once, they have these divided roads which are 55 and 65 MPH and they come to these little towns and require you to slow to 35 MPH. At one place your coming down a hill and around a bend to stop light and the cops sit right after the bend and hit you with Laser.

I was coming to the bend and saw something funny so I slowed way down and the next thing I knew my V1 laser detector was going off. When I got around the bend They had all kinds of people pulled over.

[StlouisX50]

OH wow, sound like a good set up for them. Real speed trap area!