Photo enforcement saving three lives per month

Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) statistics show on average photo enforcement is saving three lives per month on Valley freeways. Results also indicate 116 fewer injury crashes.

According to DPS, thanks to the work of the Governor and the Arizona Legislature the increased number of DPS officers on state highways has resulted in increased enforcement in the last few years.

Accordingly, DPS has seen a steady decrease in collision numbers statewide. Since the expansion of the Photo Enforcement Program, collisions have been further reduced above the trend of the last few years.

Additional reductions occurred during the first 80 days of the expanded photo enforcement program. Property crashes have been reduced by 12 percent, injury crashes by 17 percent and fatality collisions by 29 percent.

These are preliminary numbers based on a comparison to collisions on the Metro Phoenix freeway system from Sept. 26, 2007, to Dec.16, 2007, which takes in approximately 80 days.

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