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Fifty-five mo­torists were tick­et­ed for speed­ing and two ar­rest­ed for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence dur­ing road traf­fic ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch (TH­PB) be­tween Thurs­day and Sat­ur­day.

In to­tal, of­fi­cers is­sued 114 Elec­tron­ic Fixed Penal­ty No­tices (EF­P­Ns) dur­ing op­er­a­tions on the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way, Beetham High­way, Uri­ah But­ler High­way, and Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way.

The TH­PB is warn­ing dri­vers that reck­less be­hav­iour, par­tic­u­lar­ly speed­ing dur­ing the rainy sea­son, pos­es a se­ri­ous threat to life and safe­ty. “Speed­ing is dan­ger­ous, but speed­ing on wet roads dur­ing the rainy sea­son is fa­tal,” the Branch said in a re­lease.