PORTSMOUTH -- The Portsmouth and Middletown police departments are teaming up to tackle speeding and reckless driving. Operation Safe Summer “will be a highly visible and coordinated approach to traffic safety,” a press release says. Tanya Rocchio, records clerk at the Middletown Police Department, said previously officers issued 246 speeding citations in 2018 on East Main Road and 665 speeding citations on West Main Road that year. texting or talking on the phone without a hands-free device — on East Main Road in 2018 and 78 distracted driving citations on West Main Road that year. With Operation Safe Summer, Middletown and Portsmouth police “seek to lower the rates of crashes and eliminate aggressive driving actions of motorists on roadways,” the press release says.

Source: The Herald July 06, 2020 18:22 UTC