Monday, July 11, 2011

Officers Watching For Speeders

Law enforcement officers from the Washington State Patrol, Spokane County Sheriff's Office, Spokane Valley Police Department, and the Spokane Police Department will be distributing educational information to citizens about the dangers of speeding to kick-off the Washington Traffic Safety Commission’s Statewide Speed Enforcement Campaign. The statewide campaign goes July 15 through August 7.

Speeding is the second-most common driver error, after impairment, reported in fatal and serious injury crashes on Washington roads. From 2006-2008, over 40% of all fatal crashes and 30% of all serious injury crashes involved speeding. In 2009, 22 of the 44 traffic fatalities in Spokane County involved speeding.
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About SRTC

SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.

SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.