Daytona Beach, FL - A traffic safety operation on three of the busiest corridors in Daytona Beach during the period of March 17 and May 17 of this year has garnered an award for the Daytona Beach Police Department from the Florida Department of Transportation. The award came yesterday for superior work and results in the recently completed operation aimed at improving traffic safety in the city.
DBPD Public Information Officer Messod Bendayan said the two-month education and enforcement effort was funded by a $30,000 FDOT grant administered by the University of North Florida and the University of
South Florida.
The efforts were concentrated on three of Daytona Beach’s busiest roads:
• Nova Road/State Road 5A corridor from Brentwood Drive to Beville Road.
• International Speedway Boulevard/US 92 corridor from Bill France Boulevard to Ridgewood Avenue.
• Ridgewood Avenue/US 1 corridor from Mason Avenue to Beville Road.
Bendayan said the reason those areas were chosen to concentrate on is that about 80 percent of the accidents in Daytona Beach take place on those streets. During the operation, DBPD officers issued over 430 warnings, gave out 130 sets of bicycle lights, handed out over 30 citations and made 10 misdemeanor arrests.
FDOT statistics show Daytona Beach ranks 4th highest of all Florida cities (population between 15,000 and 74,999) for traffic crashes resulting in serious and fatal injuries to pedestrians and bicyclists. That rank is the average over a four-year period between 2013 and 2017.
