(Des Moines, IA) — The last of five statewide Traffic Fatality Reduction Task Force special non-holiday enforcement efforts wrapped up on Monday.
State Patrol spokesman, Sergeant Alex Dinkla, says they used a new technique in central Iowa where they had a trooper riding with a trucker up and down I-80/35 specifically looking for drivers using their cellphone or electronic communication device in an inappropriate manner.
Dinkla says they only used the Trooper and the truck for a few hours and wrote 21 citations. One of the first goals is to have the yearly deaths on Iowa roadways drop below 300.
