HIGHWAY PATROL CONDUCTS EMPHASIS ENFORCEMENT BLITZ
By KBMW NEWS • Nov 14th, 2008 • Share:
THE SOUTHEAST REGION OF THE NORTH DAKOTA HIGHWAY PATROL CONDUCTED A TWO-DAY HIGH EMPHASIS ENFORCEMENT BLITZ WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE EMPHASIS WAS PLACED ON VIOLATIONS FOR FAILING TO STOP OR YIELD AT A STOP SIGN, RED LIGHT, OR YELLOW LIGHT AND FAILURE TO YIELD AT INTERSECTIONS. TROOPERS ISSUED 107 CITATIONS AND 32 WARNINGS, 16 OF THE CITATIONS AND 1 OF THE WARNINGS WERE SPECIFICALLY FOR RIGHT OF WAY VIOLATIONS. SO FAR THIS YEAR ND HAS RECORDED 14 FATALITIES WHERE RIGHT OF WAY VIOLATIONS CONTRIBUTED TO THE CRASHES. 15 COUNTIES MAKE UP THE SOUTHEAST REGION OF THE NORTH DAKOTA HIGHWAY PATROL INCLUDING CASS, RANSOM, SARGENT, AND RICHLAND COUNTIES.

