(La Porte County, IN) - Speeders in La Porte County are facing a greater risk of being pulled over.

The La Porte County Sheriff’s Office this month is taking part in a statewide effort to raise awareness about the danger of speeding, and to urge drivers to obey speed limits.

For the rest of the month, police said officers are on “high alert” for speeding vehicles during what’s been dubbed the “Speeding Slows You Down” campaign.

“Speed limit signs are not suggestions, they are the law,” asserts La Porte County Police Capt. Derek Allen.

In 2021, speeding resulted in the deaths of 252 people in Indiana or more than one-fourth of all motor vehicle fatalities. Speeding was sldo blamed for 290 fatalities statewide last year, and is projected to cause 300 speeding-related traveling deaths in Indiana this year.

“If you are killed in a crash or if you kill someone else, that is it.  There is no second chance."

Allen noted that the enforcement effort, paid for with federal dollars, is focused on roads known to have a high number of speed related crashes.