Crime & Safety

Speeders Beware: Waukesha Police Conducting Special Traffic Enforcement

Waukesha Police Department part of grant program to reduce traffic deaths. The special enforcement runs through July 17.

This information came from Waukesha Police Department Capt. Dennis Angle.

To decrease speeding and increase safety belt use, the City of Waukesha Police Department will intensify its traffic safety enforcement efforts during the Summer Heat campaign through July 17.

With more officers patrolling for longer hours during the Summer Heat campaign, we are striving to get drivers to comply voluntarily with the posted speed limits and to buckle up.

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Our goal is not to issue more traffic citations. Our goal is to reduce the number of preventable traffic deaths to zero in Wisconsin. As a result, if voluntary compliance fails we will not hesitate to take appropriate enforcement action.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, speeding is prevalent and deadly on roadways throughout the state. During the last five years, speed-related crashes on average have killed 231 people and injured more than 10,000 annually.

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There were more than 200,000 speeding convictions in Wisconsin last year. There also were nearly 120,000 convictions last year for failure to fasten safety belts, which was an all-time high and second only to speeding convictions. In Wisconsin, about one out of five motorists does not buckle up.  Wisconsin’s safety belt use rate of 79 percent lags behind the 85 percent national average for safety belt use

To participate in Summer Heat and other traffic safety mobilizations, the City of Waukesha Police Department received $35,000 in federal funding administered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for officers’ overtime and other traffic enforcement-related expenses.


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