Fifty-five mo­torists were tick­et­ed for speed­ing and two ar­rest­ed for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence dur­ing road traf­fic ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch (TH­PB) be­tween Thurs­day and Sat­ur­day.

In to­tal, of­fi­cers is­sued 114 Elec­tron­ic Fixed Penal­ty No­tices (EF­P­Ns) dur­ing op­er­a­tions on the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way, Beetham High­way, Uri­ah But­ler High­way, and Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way.

The TH­PB is warn­ing dri­vers that reck­less be­hav­iour, par­tic­u­lar­ly speed­ing dur­ing the rainy sea­son, pos­es a se­ri­ous threat to life and safe­ty. “Speed­ing is dan­ger­ous, but speed­ing on wet roads dur­ing the rainy sea­son is fa­tal,” the Branch said in a re­lease.

In ad­di­tion to speed­ing vi­o­la­tions, of­fi­cers al­so cit­ed:

-19 dri­vers for breach­ing traf­fic signs and lights

-16 for us­ing mo­bile de­vices while dri­ving

-8 for over­tak­ing im­prop­er­ly on the left

-6 for fail­ing to wear seat­belts

-7 for dri­ving with­out a cer­tifi­cate of in­sur­ance

“These are ir­re­spon­si­ble ac­tions that put both the er­rant dri­ver and oth­er road users at risk. We will con­tin­ue to clamp down hard on these il­le­gal acts to save lives and min­imise risk to the mo­tor­ing pub­lic,” the TH­PB added.

The ex­er­cis­es were co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr Supt Daly, Snr Supt Si­mon, Supt Kissoon­lal, Supt (Ag) Guz­man, ASP Band­han, In­sp Rag­bir, In­sp (Ag) Ho­sein, In­sp (Ag) Dood­nath, W/In­sp (Ag) Mo­han, In­sp (Ag) Jit­mans­ingh and In­sp (Ag) Gayaper­sad.