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Lemont Police Participate In Illinois Speed Awareness Day
The purpose of the day is to promote education, conduct enforcement and support continued engineering advances.
LEMONT, IL — Lemont Police Department will participate in Illinois Speed Awareness Day July 24. The department said the purpose of the day is to promote education, conduct enforcement and support continued engineering advances in an effort to heighten public awareness of the dangers of excessive speed which will lead to the prevention of collisions, deaths and injuries.
The day also includes the support of legislation advances to strengthen the laws and associated penalties of those convicted of offenses related to excessive speeding, police said.
Lemont Police said, according to IDOT, in 2017:
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- There were 311,679 crashes involving motor vehicles.
- 93, 517 people were injured, and 1,090 people lost their lives.
- Crashes involving speed accounted for 33.2% of overall crashes, 36.2% of fatal crashes, and 37.9% of injury crashes.
- The total estimated cost of crashes in Illinois was $8.1 billon.
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