RALEIGH – The State Highway Patrol concluded Operation Drive to Live after a week-long education and enforcement campaign from April 3 through April 7 that focused on promoting safe driving awareness to teenage drivers.
During Operation Drive to Live, troopers enforced all traffic laws around the state’s high schools and conducted traffic safety education programs. Troopers were actively looking for violations such as speeding, following too closely, careless and reckless driving and any violation of the motor vehicle laws that can result in serious injury or death. In addition, troopers presented over 150 traffic safety education programs to students across the state.
Here are numbers for Troop B, which includes Bladen County among its 11-county district:
** High Schools Patrolled: 106
** Traffic Safety Education Programs Given: 54
** Seatbelt Violations: 242
** Speeding Violations: 736
** Graduated Driver’s License Violations: 12
** Passing Stopped School Bus: 5
** Other Traffic Violations: 576
** Written Warnings: 177
In 2016, the Highway Patrol investigated over 57,359 motor vehicle collisions involving drivers and passengers who were between the ages of 15 and 19. Of those collisions, 10,774 injuries were reported and 118 resulted in one or more fatalities.
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