‘Road Shark’ targets aggressive drivers
Police issued nearly 5,700 citations and warnings in Fairfax County during the first wave of the 2024 Road Shark traffic safety campaign. That’s 1,990 more than the first Road Shark wave in 2023.
Road Shark is coordinated by the Fairfax County Police Department in partnership with the Virginia State Police.
The campaign focuses on enhancing visibility of the police and combatting aggressive driving, reducing traffic accidents, and fostering positive changes in driving behavior.
During the first wave – March 17-23 – police ticketed reckless drivers, some of whom exceeded 100 miles per hour. The second wave of Road Shark begins April 22.
8 responses to “‘Road Shark’ targets aggressive drivers”
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Keep it up!
Are you kidding? It’s not safe to drive anymore. It’s not just the 100 mph drivers — they run you off the road if you are going the speed limit! Targeting aggressive drivers should be a daily event — not a special event.
I wish they had stopped the drivers racing on Rt 50 last week and the one today who passed me on a yellow line on Cedar Lane and then someone else the same way before turning onto Rt 29. People have been driving liked they are possessed!
Please continue
Mason district is becoming a race track I can hear the engines roar from inside my apartment.
Agreed, I’ve never seen so many aggressive drivers in my 20+ years of driving as now. It seems everyone is so impatient and as long as I’ve driven on the highway, I’m trying to avoid it b/c I see too many people treating it like it’s some racing video game, weaving in and out of cars with almost no space to do so. I have a baby riding in the back now and one time I almost got sandwiched between this huge 18 wheeler and another car that wasn’t letting ppl merge over, definitely stressful.
Why is this not an everyday occurrence? The police need to focus on issuing tickets on a regular basis. Driving is becoming extremely dangerous with 3-4 people driving through lights after they have turned red. People driving like they are in a video game is now becoming the norm. Police, please keep up with this effort regularly.
Road safety depends on human behavior as well as design of streets and vehicles. Our vehicles are lethal machines and roads are proven death traps, especially for pedestrians and bicyclists, so it is refreshing to see police attempting to improve the behavior of drivers. I won’t hold my breath though; our streets are mostly designed to encourage speeding and law-breaking.
The problem is that the laws that matter are not enforced. People drive far too slow in the left lane instead of moving over and getting out of the way. As a result, they caused multiple traffic accidents a day and multiple traffic jams along with scaring people because they force people to have to Weave all over the road if they have something to do or someplace to go. The other problem is the highway engineers designed the roads for much higher speed limits than what are posted. People that are traveling to slow should be given a reckless driving ticket. They are the problem. Some of them are doing it on purpose because they feel like they rule the road and then the others are doing it because they’re busy looking at their phones, putting on lipstick shaving doing everything but painful attention to the roadway. When people are going faster than some of you may like those people are paying full attention to the Roadway. It’s the people that are not paying attention fully that are a big part of the problem. Also, rude and possibly ignorant drivers or a problem such as at intersections people cross out of their lane and over into another somebody else’s lane then they get all butt hurt because they feel like they should be able to do what they want and take other peoples lanes away from them instead of making the turn and staying in their lane.