Operation Slow Down Or Pay Up is still being conducted by the Texas Department of Transportation and the law's not playing around. They want everyone aware of the danger that speeding, even by just a little, brings.
Speeding on the backroads of Midland-Odessa is a common—and dangerous—issue. With sparse patrol presence and long, empty stretches of road, drivers often exceed speed limits, forgetting that many of these roads run through residential areas. Efforts like Operation Cruise Control aim to combat this growing concern.
We've all been guilty of speeding at some point in time or another and most of us have gotten cited for it once or twice. Pretty soon though, just because you made it to your destination without being stopped won't mean you got away with it.
Across Texas, the number of traffic deaths in 2021 increased dramatically and that was with a pandemic keeping a lot of people working from home and cutting down on the amount of places they went. Still, the number of people killed in auto accidents reached numbers not seen since 1981...