The California Highway Patrol’s Maximum Enforcement Period (MEP), which ran from 6:00 a.m. Saturday, June 7, to 5:59 a.m. Sunday, June 8, targeted one of the leading causes of crashes and fatalities on our roads: speeding.
Here’s what the 24-hour operation yielded across the state:
➡️ 21,414 total enforcement actions
➡️ 17,949 citations issued
➡️ 12,355 for speeding
➡️ 373 DUI arrests
Every citation issued reflects a potentially deadly decision behind the wheel. CHP officers were deployed statewide with one mission: to keep California’s roads safe. And while this MEP has concluded, their commitment to traffic safety continues every day.
Why is this not the NORM? Isn’t this what the job of CHP is?? Average speed on Hwy 4 is 90mph…..gonna need more than a yearly “crackdown”.
Keep up the good work, CHP!
I wasn’t able to attend this year.
Sounds like a good time was had by all. 😁
I wonder what the fine total is for 17k citations and 300+ DUIs.
It has been years since I earned a speeding ticket so I am guessing it is at least $100-, plus court costs. That comes to 1,235,500- plus court fees ($50- to $100-).
DUI and its various fees are around $10,000- plus your lawyer. $3,730,000-.
Speeding ticket will cost $300 including traffic school for 15 over, as of January 2025….I speak from experience.
I went by one running radar (or whatever they’re using) on 4 at the Morello ramp while doing 77mph and they didn’t even look at me. I’m curious what the cut off was.
any time i’ve gotten a ticket they do me a favor and put 80mph, i just naturally assumed that’s their cutoff. shoutout to the officers that let me off with a warning. real recognize real. some of these speeders are wreckless.
Why now?????
This has been going on for YEARS!!
This needs to be SOP for CHP everyday.
It’s about time!!! This is WAY OVERDUE!!
Hmmm…those numbers sound great but 3 days (one of which was a Sunday) to log all that information, compile those numbers and have it ready to disseminate…?? Surprising…
Mostly BMW’s and 4 door Chargers.
Curious for a further break down, like how many in the Bay Area v the LA area/SoCal v rest of state. How many DUIs were our legislators?
If they were serious about making the roads safer they would end car pool lanes.
I was driving I-5 from Oregon to SoCal on Saturday. A trooper was within one mile of the CA/OR state line. I have never seen so many troopers in all of my driving. Every few miles, someone was pulled over or in the process of being pulled over. One vehicle whizzed past me, and within 60 seconds, a trooper pulled him over. Twenty minutes later, the same car whizzed past me again, and within 60 seconds, a different trooper was pulling him over…I guess he didn’t learn his lesson the first time. I read about the enforcement action before Saturday, so I was aware of what was happening, but I didn’t expect the blitz to be so blitzy! Great work by the CHP to help all be safer.
Now we need the local police agencies to do the same type of crack down!! Way too many speeders in our neighborhoods and downtown areas!!
Local Police Chiefs – Need to get our City PD’s back on the Traffic Enforcement Program! Many of these high speed deadly and catastrophic accidents we are seeing on our city streets are a direct result of lack of traffic enforcement. Ygnacio Valley Road has become a high speed race track for the insane traveling from East County to Highway 24. The majority of the driving population is wanting traffic enforcement for our streets. Let’s get those Motor Officers and Radar Units back on the streets!
in my opinion most people speed as an act of frustration. when it takes three times as long in traffic to get somewhere it aggravates emotionally unstable people, and typically these are the folks who cause accidents. what truly needs to be addressed, if not a mental standard for driver’s license, is development of land without considering the impact of traffic.
how many houses and apartments have been added to the Oakley/Antioch/Pittsburg/Concord area in the last 5 years alone? Outdated highways are the only way out of the east bay.