Crime & Safety
Speed Awareness Campaign Nets Nearly 230 Citations
Enforcement targeted Route 30 speeders in Montgomery, other communities.
Editor's note: The following is taken from a press release issued by the Plainfield Police Department:
The Aug. 8 Route 30 resulting in 228 citations, Montgomery police announced Monday.
The multi-jurisdictional enforcement included the , Plainfield, Oswego, Joliet and Crest Hill police departments, along with railroad police departments, area sheriff’s departments and the Illinois State Police.
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The event was held in conjunction with Families Against Chronic Excessive Speeding, a nonprofit group dedicated to educating the public to the dangers of speeding. Its purpose was to cite speeding vehicles, with a secondary focus on commercial motor vehicle violations, occupant restraint violations and violations involving highway railroad grade crossings.
The following citations were issued:
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- Speeding - 123
- Occupant Restraint - 38
- No Insurance - 17
- Traffic Sign/Signal - 2
- Registration Offenses - 4
- Truck Safety Violations - 7
- Other Moving Violations - 5
- Other Equipment Violations - 7
- Driving While License Suspended/Revoked/No Valid Driver’s License - 9
- Blocking Railroad Grade Crossing - 13
- Trespass to Railroad Property - 3
- Total Citations Issued – 228
- Total Warnings Issued – 83
- Total Commercial Motor Vehicles Taken Out of Service – 7 (Illinois State Police)
- Total Truck Inspections – 23 (Illinois State Police and Illinois Commerce Commission Police)
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