Highway patrol issues 91 speeding tickets over the weekend

Senior Superintendent of Police, Traffic and Highway Patrol Branch, Wayne Mystar, is strongly urging drivers to adhere to the speed limit along the nation’s highways, particularly at night.

According to police reports, 91 speeding tickets were issued over the weekend for exceeding roadway speed limits, with the highest being clocked at 178kmh. Exercises were executed along the Diego Martin, Churchill Roosevelt and Uriah Butler Highways.

Mystar added that, “Eighty-nine per cent of our speed violation detections were during the late night and wee hours of the morning. This recklessness will not be tolerated. Speeding drivers expose both themselves and other road users to an unnecessary risk of death and serious injury and we intend to expand our night speed enforcement during the month of December, as part of our ‘safe city’ initiative for the holiday season.

Officers of the Highway Patrol Branch responded to a road traffic accident along the westbound lane of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, St. Augustine which occurred around 1.30 am November 27th, 2021. Upon arrival officers found the body of an unidentified man lying motionless on the roadway. The man is of African descent, approximately 55 years of age, dark in complexion. Anyone with information on this hit and run incident is asked to contact the St. Joseph Police Station at 662–4038 or via the 555 reporting hotline or the TTPS’ App. This latest incident brings the current number of road traffic deaths for 2021 to 72, compared to 82 for the same period last year.

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