LEONARDTOWN, Md. – The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, the Maryland State Police, and the St. Mary’s County State’s Attorney’s Office are implementing a multi-agency initiative: Slow Down St. Mary’s, a comprehensive response to combat the rise in traffic-related fatalities.
Eight deaths have stemmed from fatal motor vehicle collisions in St. Mary’s County this year, compared to ten deaths in all of 2022. This number does not include the numerous collisions resulting in serious non-fatal injuries to citizens. Speeding, distracted driving, and aggressive driving have been identified as contributing factors in many of this year’s crashes.
St. Mary’s County Sheriff Steve Hall and Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack Commander Lieutenant Krystle Rossignol have agreed to dedicate and combine resources for a joint initiative focused on changing driver behavior with the issuance of citations.
St. Mary’s County State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling and her staff will hold the line in seeking fines and point assessment penalties for those infractions, including, but not limited to:
• Aggressive driving
• Reckless driving
• Negligent driving
• Speeding
• Driving a vehicle or participating in a race or speed contest
• Driving while using a handheld phone/earbuds
• Failure to stop/remain stopped for a stopped school bus
• Exceeding the speed limit in a posted school zone
• Traffic infractions that contribute to an accident
Slow Down St. Mary’s not only stresses the importance of obeying the speed limit, it also re-enforces the need to focus on the safe operation of your vehicle and respect other motorists who share our roadways. This cooperative effort seeks to save lives and address the dangerous trends affecting our community.
Oh it took yall this long to do something about the wreckless idiots that drive around here?! IT TOOK 8 PEOPLE LOSING THEIR LIVES FOR YOU TO DO YOUR JOBS!?
I dont think it took 8 people losing thier lives, however it is a problem now that is going to be very difficult to get under control again if ever.
If the police do their job everyday, seven days a week, 24/7, then yes it will eventually get under control. However, if the police work three days and slack four then nothing will change.
Slower drivers stay out of the left lane if you can’t do the speed limit.
Stay out of our blind spots.
Never drive side by side on a 2 lane road!
When the shoulder is paved, make your right turn from it and not the travel lane.
You need to go back to drivers education “when shoulder is paved, make your right turn from it and not the travel lane” that’s illegal unless it’s a designated turning lane
Not illegal to drive side by side either
Blind spots are the drivers problem not everyone else’s
Please stop driving
Speed cameras, speed cameras, speed cameras
I’m glad just wish deputies there had been on 235 near cooks liquors Thursday afternoon around 3,when a yellow Camero past me doing about a 120.
Cant wait to see this 200 ticket a day “quota” become a lawsuit. If the county cant spend all of this excess funding they clearly have on actually fixing the missing and hidden street speed signs, and repainting safety lines, then they have no grounds to stand on. Don’t be fooled into thinking they care about your safety, they care about lining their pockets. If they really cared, they wouldn’t hide the police in black cars. If they really cared theyd take action based on facts not feeling. Meanwhile drugs still damage the reputation of Great Mills… Think that new police station catches anything but speeding down there? Its their highest statistics, yet that street is in shambles. Wake up people. They don’t care about your safety, and they’ll extort you as long as you let them. And they think you are all unintelligent enough that they even said this directly to you.
Now get your signs fixed, and those lines painted, 311 is waiting for your call. We may as well spend those tax dollars wisely.
Any way they can add impending traffic to this list? I mean tje speed limits in this state are slow enough to travel blind, drunk, distracted, and backwards fairly safely (I jest). Going 10 under or more is well worse than speeding.