Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 16, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 26 April 1946 — Traffic Violations Cost Hoosiers $20,000.00 [ARTICLE]

Traffic Violations Cost Hoosiers $20,000.00

Indianapolis, April 20—(Special))—Court convictions in traffic violations last month cost Ifoosicrs nearly $20,000 and two and one-half years in jail sentenees, according to Col. Austin It. Killian, superintendent of state police, who reported troopers accounted for 2,142 traffic arrests during March. A tit per cent increase was recorded in arrests last month as compared to March, 1945, Colonel Killian said. Speeding violations lead all other types of arrest last month with 278 convictions, he reported. Disregard of preferential highways resulted in 193 conviction*; drunken driving was charged, n 107 cases, and reckless driving in 150. Remaining principal violations included improper passing, passing on hills and curves, and driving on the wrong side of the road. Non-moving violations included 2,009 written warnings for improper or inadequate equipment and 31)4 convictions for registration and license violations.