Drivers caught going double the speed limit in the Miami Valley over holiday weekend

MONTGOMERY COUNTY — State troopers say they wrote hundreds of tickets in the Miami Valley over the Fourth of July weekend.

Drivers are still going too fast in construction zones, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, Montgomery and Preble Counties, troopers said the majority of what they saw was on average pulling over drivers for anywhere from 15 to 25 over the limit.

One driver was stopped for doing nearly double the speed limit in a 60 MPH zone. Troopers said the driver was impaired.

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OSHP Lt. Dallas Root said he stopped a driver from doing 95 MPH in a 55 through the construction zone in Harrison Township and Dayton on I-75.

“I was out working the entire five-day period. A lot of people over the speed limit. Especially in our construction zones,” Root said.

Root said over the holiday weekend, troopers with the Dayton Post made roughly 850 traffic stops— writing almost 550 tickets out of them.

“Made every attempt that we could to slow people down,” Root said. “We had no fatalities in Preble or Montgomery County, which is our ultimate goal every holiday weekend: zero fatal.”

As News Center 7 previously reported, I-75 through Montgomery County is on a priority list of ten locations in a new statewide initiative aimed at reducing crashes in construction zones, so there will be continued focus from troopers there.

We will continue updating this story.

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