The Highway Patrol is committed to doing all it can to reduce traffic fatalities on North Carolina Highways. Troopers conducted Operation Slow Down-Interstate Initiative February 9-23. The purpose of the operation was to reduce speed related collisions on North Carolina Interstates. In the past four years, 359 motorists have been killed and 14,297 injured in 50,222 collisions on our interstates; speed is the leading cause of those collisions. Operation Slow Down - Interstate Initiative is a Highway Patrol traffic enforcement operation that increases the presence of troopers on the interstates and addresses these concerns.
Troopers issued over 26,000 speeding citations during the operation. Slow Down will be repeated later in the year.