COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KMTV) — According to an email from the Iowa State Patrol, the agency's Commerical Motor Vehicle Unit and the Council Bluffs Police Department "participated in a joint project in and around Pottawattamie County with an emphasis on Interstate 29 at the 53-mile marker (near 9th Avenue in Council Bluffs) in the reduced speed Construction Zone (35mph)."
The law enforcement effort took place on Aug. 24 and Aug. 25. According to ISP, there has been an increase in accidents near that location in the reduced speed zone.
Motorists, says ISP, have been traveling at high rates of speed through areas with reduced speed limits. This creates a "dangerous combination" and the enforcement effort, they say, is an attempt to get traffic to slow down.
See results from those two days for both agencies:
- 313 total traffic stops
- 277 total speed citations
- 12 seatbelt citations
- 1 narcotic arrest
- 1 wanted person apprehended
- 197 written warnings
- 4 motorist assists
- 90 commercial motor vehicle inspections conducted
- 20 of those inspections resulted in an OUT OF SERVICE violation
- The fastest speed that was stopped was 86 mph in a 35 construction zone.
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