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TRAFFIC SAFETY – APRIL

Calgary – In an effort to improve road safety, the Calgary Police Service will be conducting traffic enforcement for the month of April focusing on people who endanger their lives, and the lives of others, by speeding.

Throughout the month, officers will be targeting speeders as part of the provincial Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) that follows the Alberta Traffic Safety Plan calendar.

Statistics show that exceeding the speed limit significantly increases the risk of serious injury or death for drivers, passengers and pedestrians involved in a collision.

In Calgary, unsafe speed is considered to be a factor in an average of 41 per cent of serious injury collisions and 30 per cent of all fatal collisions.

Const. Jim Lebedeff, from the CPS Traffic Section comments, “Slowing down and driving to the speed limit and road conditions can save you from tragedy and possibly an outcome you may never be able to reverse.

“Speeding reduces the driver’s ability to manoeuvre around obstacles as well as the ability to negotiate curves in the roadway. It also increases the time and distance a vehicle travels when a driver has to react to a hazard on the roadway or possibly another vehicle pulling onto the roadway.

“Slow down and make every trip a safe one. It’s better to get there late than not get there at all.”