Police target aggressive drivers
The Fairfax County Police Department rolled out its 2023 Road Shark campaign on March 13 targeting aggressive driving.
Road Shark is a high-visibility coordinated enforcement and education effort aimed at reducing crashes, changing driving behavior, and, ultimately, saving lives.
The police department will station officers in high-visibility areas all over the county. They will look for aggressive driving, excessive speeding, driving under the influence, school zone violations, distracted driving, and other violations.
The FCPD will work with the Virginia State Police to use data-driven strategies to focus on areas with high concentrations of crashes and risk-based enforcement strategies. They will also carry out education and enforcement campaigns to urge residents to practice safer driving behaviors.
A 2022 report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found high-visibility enforcement, such as Road Shark, is effective in reducing crashes.
9 responses to “Police target aggressive drivers”
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Can the police train the “new arrival drivers” how to drive and the pedestrians to stay out of the roads please. Pedestrians dressed in black and looking at their phones while crossing the roads are getting themselves killed.
It seems we have to be “aggressive ” to get where we are going anymore.
Set up the speed traps and enforce all traffic laws and the few really problem drivers will start to obey the laws.
People are taught, not trained.
Can you please provide a link to the studies that have analyzed the data on “new arrival” drivers and the incidence of mortality and morbidity? I’d love to take a look, Jeff. Thank you!
How about also targeting the obnoxious, super-noisy idiot-cars that seem to be everywhere? Noise is another form of aggression. Whatever happened to noise ordinances?
Fully support this and our police. But can the police also get after aggressive parking too? Like the 20 cars packed onto the lawn of a single family home? Out of state plates all over one small block of a quiet residential neighborhood. Could they go after aggressive dumping on Americana drive? And when they stop an aggressive driver, will the unlicensed undocumented actually get referred to ICE?
This is a welcome development. Aggressive driving, distracted driving, speeding, and other just plain outrageous traffic violations are commonplace in Fairfax County. People need to slow down, stay off their cell phones while driving, maintain a reasonable distance between their car and the one in front of them, use turn signals and pay attention to the turn signals of others, remember that it is right turn on red only AFTER you stop and you can make the turn safely, and remember that red lights and stop signs mean STOP.
The staggering amount of blatant racism in these posts is disgusting. Wanna throw ageism in as well and arrest all the older citizens who don’t obey traffic laws? What about women drivers? Any other stereotypes we’re missing? We should just all use horses and buggies since we’re clearly not using our brains and do not have God or good intentions in our hearts. Yes, let’s deport people for driving mistakes and traffic violations – with the exception of DUI. Gross.
I agree, SCGinVA.
Still waiting for those studies on “new arrivals”…
The noisy muffler law has been in existence for a year. Friday nights sound like the Indy 500. I’ve asked the police captain why nothing is done and get no response. Hopefully when Penny is gone the new member will take a more aggressive stance with the police
Look forward to seeing more traffic enforcement – I just hope some of this happens in Mason District.