Reckless drivers, beware! <\/p>\n
This week, the police will be watching for reckless drivers.<\/p>\n
As part of the annual Operation Safe Driver Week event during the week of July 14-20, the Department of Public Safety\u2019s Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program section will be on the lookout for commercial vehicle and passenger vehicle drivers engaging in dangerous driver behavior.<\/p>\n
Such drivers will be pulled over by law enforcement and may be issued a citation. <\/p>\n
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance emphasizes the importance of driver behavior, citing a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistic that driver actions contributed to 94% of all traffic crashes.<\/p>\n
Each Operation Driver Week has a point of emphasis for enforcement and this year\u2019s emphasis is on speeding. <\/p>\n
In 2017, speeding contributed to 26% of all traffic fatalities, affecting over 9,700 lives, according to NHTSA. Specifically, speeding of any kind was the most frequent driver-related crash factor for drivers of commercial motor vehicles and passenger vehicles, according to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration\u2019s 2016 Large Truck and Bus Facts.<\/p>\n
During Operation Safe Driver Week, law enforcement jurisdictions throughout North America and its territories will be endorsing, promoting, and supporting the following message: Late won\u2019t kill you, speeding will.<\/p>\n
In addition to the emphasis on speeding, DPS MCSAP personnel will be tracking other dangerous driver behaviors throughout Operation Safe Driver Week, such as distracted driving, texting, failure to use a seatbelt, following too closely, improper lane change, reckless or aggressive driving, failure to obey traffic control devices, evidence of drunk or drugged driving, etc. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reckless drivers, beware! This week, the police will be watching for reckless drivers. As part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}