• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Crime / Courts / Troopers tally deadly holiday weekend on Iowa roads

Troopers tally deadly holiday weekend on Iowa roads

November 28, 2006 By admin

The long holiday weekend claimed five lives on Iowa roadways. State Public Safety Department spokesman Jim Saunders says there were two special enforcement projects underway — the Combined Accident Reduction Effort and the Special Traffic Enforcement Program. He credits that enforcement effort with the arrest of 27 drunk drivers, more than 2-thousand 380-speeding tickets, 325 seatbelt citations, and 665 tickets for other violations. Troopers also stopped to help 267 motorists in distress during that week. Five people died in crashes on state roadways during the four-day period Thursday through Sunday. In three of the crashes that were investigated by state troopers, the victims were the people who weren’t belted in. The difference is clear, says Saunders, as the people who survived those same wrecks were the ones who HAD buckled up. “Our troopers unfortunately are called all too often to respond to accidents where folks were ejected,” Saunders says, “and it’s a high likelihood that those folks would not have been injured and certainly may not have lost their lives had they just taken the time to fasten that seatbelt.”

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Crime / Courts, Fires/Accidents/Disasters

Featured Stories

Governor signs Iowa Renewable Fuels Standard into law

Jury returns guilty verdict in shooting death of State Trooper

A haboob, a dust storm black out, hits northwest Iowa

Summit has easements for 20% of carbon pipeline route through Iowa

Morel mushroom hunters on hold without warmer conditions

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Iowa Special Olympics Summer games set to open in Ames

Radio Iowa/Baseball Coaches Association High School Poll 5/16/22

Iowa assistant coach Kirk Speraw to retire

Northern Iowa prepares for Missouri Valley Conference softball tournament

T.J. Otzelberger announces staff changes at Iowa State

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2022 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC