Starting Monday, police will increase patrols on stretches of Island Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia and Aramingo Avenue in North Philadelphia.
Philadelphia police will soon begin a crackdown on aggressive driving in two busy corridors in the latest in a series of recent initiatives designed to make Philly’s roads safer.On Island Avenue, police will step up enforcement between Bartram and Woodland Avenues, covering roughly 1.6 miles. Aramingo Avenue will see an increased police presence across a similar distance from Somerset Street to Frankford Creek.
“We’re enforcing it from soup to nuts,” he said. It was not immediately clear why the initiative was scheduled to last only a month. To date in 2024, there have been about 26,000 car crashes in the city, compared to 48,000 for all of 2023. The city is “on pace for a slight reduction” in car crashes by the end of the year, Cram said.
Fatal car crashes, Cram added, are also slightly down, with 61 people having died in crash-related incidents so far this year. At this point last year, he said, 71 people had been killed. That change, he said, marks a “slight decrease, but not enough.”
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