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Speeding arrests
are up in state
Arrests by the State Police alone for speeding during the first nine months of 1975 numbered 169,325 well in excess of the 112,886 and 81,027 for the same periods of 1974 and 1973, Colonel H. W. Burgess, Superintendent of the Department, reports.
Colonel Burgess noted that the arrests were for all types of speeding violations and not only for those of the 55 miles per hour limit. However, he said that the great majority were and that the new mobile radars, which can check the speed of an oncoming car, as well as the stationary radars, were in use during the entire period.
Arrests of commercial vehicle drivers during the period numbered 24,509. Deaths for the nine months ran to 752, or 20 less than for the same months of 1974 and 189 below those of the same months of 1973. Traffic volumes through August were 2.5 percent above those of 1974.
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