Latest news with #TrafficEnforcement
CTV News
22-05-2025
- CTV News
Canada Road Safety Week nabbed 302 delinquent Dufferin drivers
A Dufferin County Ontario Provincial Police officer points a radar gun at oncoming traffic during Canada's Road Safety Week, May 13 to 19, 2025.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
How Nevada State police keep traffic flowing at EDC
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) is one of the Las Vegas valley's biggest and brightest events. Every year law enforcement works together to keep the fun going as safely and smoothly as possible. Nevada State Police Highway Patrol (NHP) gave 8 News Now a behind-the-scenes look at traffic enforcement. NHP expects 185,000 people each night at this year's EDC. 'This event is so large, that it is all hands on deck,' Nevada State Police Trooper Ashlee Wellman said. 'We treat it just like, as if it was like New Year's Eve. It is mandatory for all our officers.' Each night of the festival is comprised of three shifts, each of which are around 11 hours. Each day, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway sees around 150 troopers and officers. 'We work together with one mission and one goal, and that's to get everybody here to have a good time safely and get them back home safely, and it just gets better and better every year,' Wellman said. Regarding traffic safety, Wellman said one of the most common causes of traffic jams is people stopping and asking for directions, leading to almost everyone behind the lost driver slowing down or stopping entirely. Sometimes, it's not even a driver that interrupts the flow — it's people walking. 'You cannot walk on the side of the highway,' Wellman said. 'You're generating a call for service, which takes us from our post, or we have to pull someone from town to then get to you. It's a whole thing where we're trying to get everyone in and quickly, and it's yeah, it's a whole domino effect.' When the festival ends in the morning, troopers make sure departing traffic can get home safely. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
