The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) released results from this year’s Operation Safe Driver Week traffic enforcement operation.
Operation Safe Driver Week took place in North America from July 7 to 13, 2024.
During the week-long effort, law enforcement officers were on the lookout for dangerous driving behaviors performed by both passenger and commercial vehicle drivers in an effort to reduce crashes.
The area of emphasis for Operation Safe Driver Week 2024 was Reckless/careless/dangerous driving, which is defined as operating a vehicle without due care and attention or reasonable consideration for other motorists or people on the road.
See below for highlights of the Operation Safe Driver Week campaign.
- Officers pulled over 11,050 passenger and commercial vehicles in the U.S. and Canada.
- 2,712 tickets/citations and 3,228 warnings were issued to commercial motor vehicle and passenger vehicle drivers for various violations.
- 2,439 warnings and 1,583 tickets/citations were issued to commercial motor vehicle drivers.
- 789 warnings and 1,129 tickets/citations were issued to passenger vehicle drivers.
- A total of 1,694 warnings and 1,226 citations/tickets were issued for speeding.
- Commercial motor vehicle drivers received 1,221 warnings and 502 tickets/citations for speed violations
- Passenger vehicle drivers received 473 warnings and 724 citations/tickets for speed violations.
- A total of 354 warnings and 554 tickets/citations were issued for failure to wear a seatbelt.
- Commercial motor vehicle drivers received 328 warnings and 473 tickets/citations for not wearing their seat belt.
- Passenger vehicle drivers received 26 warnings and 81 tickets/citations for failure to wear a seat belt.