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IN ANSWER to some questions raised about whether the 55-mileper-hour speed limit is not being rigidly enforced, Colonel H. W. Burgess, Superintendent of State Police, released statistics showing a “significant rise” in speeding arrests made by his department alone.
He said that during the first nine months of 1974, State Police speeding arrests totaled 112,886, an increase of 31,859 over the 81,027 for the same period of 1973. As an example, he cited 14,830 such arrests during September, or an increase of 5,820 over the 9,010 of September, 1973.
“We had, excluding uniformed personnel in basic training, an average slightly in excess of 800 troopers to patrol 50,000 miles of highways 24 hours a day for each day of those nine months. Con
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