Radar Guns Making Holidays Safer

The holiday season is known for its reckless drivers; therefore law enforcement professionals react accordingly by pulling out their radar guns and speed detection equipment and springing into action.  What is it about the holidays that warrant higher speeds on the freeway?  Why do drivers risk life and limb only to arrive minutes earlier?  Regardless of the cause, traffic fatalities are preventable, and a radar gun is the not-so-secret weapon to curb speeders.

In Savannah, Georgia, a man was killed in a traffic incident that could have been prevented by a laser radar gun.  Officers responded to the single vehicle fatal crash at a popular intersection that has been marked as a speeding hotspot.  That same day, local law enforcement beefed up their radar gun patrol and equipped an even larger number of units with gun radar and speed radar guns.  In only two hours, metro officers issued 85 speeding tickets to drivers traveling over 80 mph. Also, a campaign was launched to educate the community about the state’s Super Speeder Law.  This law raises the fine for speeders doing 75 mph or more on a two-lane road or 85 mph anywhere else.

It is never too late to begin implementing an increased use of handheld radar guns and speed detection devices such as speed trailers.  Police radar guns save law-abiding motorists from their dangerous counterparts and look to be irreplaceable tools in the fight to reach the pinnacle of traffic safety.  OpticsPlanet takes traffic safety one step further by supplying hand held radar guns and radar laser guns to the professionals that need them most.  Stay tuned to Radar Guns Blog and OpticsPlanet.com.