By: Donovan W. Mann – [email protected]
Ankeny, IA – The Iowa Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement group will be participating in Operation Safe Driver week.
Per a release from the I-DOT, from July 11-17 the state will be participating in an effort by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance to bring attention to motor carrier safety issues. The annual week of enforcement and educational blitz concentrates the Motor Vehicle Enforcement’s efforts on detecting unsafe driving behavior by both commercial motor vehicle and other drivers.
In 2021, Operation Safe Driver will focus on speeding. According to the National Safety Council’s preliminary estimates, the rate of death on the roads last year increased 24 percent over the previous 12 month period. This is despite there being a 13 percent drop of in miles driven.
The Operation Safe Driver program was created to help reduce the number of crashes involving commercial and passenger vehicles due to unsafe behaviors. The initiative aims to improve the behavior of all drives operating in an unsafe manner by using educational and traffic enforcement strategies.