New Road Safety Program for Illinois

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By Tierney Modglin

Story Published: Nov 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM CST

Story Updated: Nov 13, 2009 at 6:31 PM CST

Illinois roads may be a little safer...now that the state has launched a new road safety program.

I-DOT hopes the Operation Save one-hundred campaign will help reduce the number of fatalities on Illinois roadways this year by at least one-hundred.

According to I-DOT there were 1,043 fatalities on Illinois roads last year.

Officials are hoping this year that figure will be one-hundred fewer than that.

Pekin Police Department's Public Information Officer Mike Sanders says, "Our biggest concern is again fatalities, we don't want fatalities to increase...nobody does. If us hiring three or four additional officers during the time frame can help eliminate an accident, eliminate an injury anything like that makes somebody else safer out there on the roadways it's a great thing."

Creve Coeur announced today they are joining the state in the road safety program.

As of Tuesday there have been 781 fatalities so far this year.

Wednesday, Dec 2 at 8:15 AM Jim Denny wrote ...

The State needs to improve the highway between East Peoria and North Pekin by installing more lighting,repaving and

Saturday, Nov 14 at 11:59 AM Anon wrote ...

"TIME ARE CHANGING," A) Stop screaming. B) Learn to spell. C) Get some proper punctuation.

Saturday, Nov 14 at 11:58 AM Eric wrote ...

According to the numbers in this article we are 261 less fatalities so far and we still have the holidays to get through. We're not doing too bad. Now if we lose another 200 people in the next 30 days, yes, we have a problem.

Saturday, Nov 14 at 9:19 AM Burt wrote ...

Give us more money for more cops. You want to be safe, don't you?!?!? What is the program this money is going for? We already lead the world in per capita prisoners.

Friday, Nov 13 at 6:21 PM TIME ARE CHANGING wrote ...

IS THERE A REASON WHY YOU DON'T LIKE POLICE WITH SUV'S MAY THOUGHTS ARE IF THEY HAVE TO GO OFF ROAD I WOULD RATHER PAY FOR GAS THEN FOR A NEW CAR WHEN IT GETS DAMAGED

Friday, Nov 13 at 6:20 PM Brad wrote ...

How can one comment intelligently? This article didn't offer a speck of information on what the program actually says/does/contains. So... more money for cops? BAD!!

Friday, Nov 13 at 6:17 PM Anonymous wrote ...

so how is this new progam going to help plus what kind of progam is it anyway

Friday, Nov 13 at 6:00 PM $1 extra wrote ...

With gas prices up why should we taxpayers have to pay for the police to drive around in gas guzzling SUV's? (look at the picture in this news piece) This is an absolute waste of money for a donut hauler!!!

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