The Junction City Police Department will join various law enforcement agencies across Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma to stop what has been an epidemic for the past several years – increased speeding on our streets and highways.

In an effort to change this trend, law enforcement across the six-state area will be extra-vigilant during July 21st through 23rd when patrolling city, rural state and federal highways.

As vehicle speeds increase the severity of crashes increase including deaths.

Officers will issue citations to any individual who refuses to obey the traffic laws, whether it is for speeding, texting, driving while impaired or failing to buckle up.

Junction City Police Chief Dan Breci said, “Even one death is unacceptable. Please slow down, put the phone away or turn it off, and always buckle up.”

In 2015 there were over 60,000 traffic crashes according to the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT). Of those 60,000 crashes, 17 percent were due to failure to give full time and attention and 6 percent due to driving too fast. Eighty-five percent of the accidents that occurred that year were in “good weather conditions”; with 63 percent being during the daylight hours.