Intensive enforcement of Northern AZ highways March 12 and 13

Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety Partners with Northern Arizona Law Enforcement Agencies to Enforce Traffic Laws and Promote Motoring Safety

Flagstaff , AZ – The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office with financial assistance from the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety will partner with the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Flagstaff Police Department to conduct a multiagency enforcement and education detail designed to reduce motor vehicle collisions resulting in injury or death.  Collisions in Northern Arizona are responsible for multiple fatalities, critical and life threatening injuries, and thousands of dollars of property damage on an annual basis.   The primary causes of these collisions include: driver inattention, speed, and drivers impaired by alcohol or other substances.  Injuries and deaths are prevented when conscientious vehicle occupants wear safety restraint devices.

In an effort to reduce these life threatening and costly collisions, officers and deputies of the Flagstaff Police Department, the CCSO, and the Arizona DPS will participate in a task force to increase enforcement of the violations that are primarily responsible for these tragic and frequent collisions.  Our strategy is a two-pronged approach consisting of an intensive enforcement detail and a public awareness campaign.  With increased enforcement and voluntary compliance from the motorists who travel in Northern Arizona we believe the result will be a significant reduction in serious traffic collisions.

Participating officers will be assigned to this zero tolerance enforcement detail on March 12^th and 13^th, 2011.  Numerous officers will patrol Northern Arizona Highways, streets and roads and enforce violations of the motor vehicle code, especially those believed to be responsible for the many serious traffic collisions that have occurred. 

Although the major focus of this enforcement effort will occur on March 12^th and 13^th, 2011, Deputies and Officers of the participating agencies will continue to conduct daily enforcement.

The Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety has provided supplemental funding for enhanced traffic enforcement and motoring safety education for many years.  Recently the CCSO received a GOHS Grant in the amount of $24,455 that allowed for the purchase of eight moving speed detection radars, five personal lapel cameras and a computer server to support this technology.