DPS Press Release:
Thanks to the work of the Governor and the Arizona Legislature, the increased number of DPS
Officers on state highways has resulted in increased enforcement in the last few years.
Accordingly, DPS has seen a steady decrease in collision numbers statewide. Since the
expansion of the Photo Enforcement Program, collisions have been further reduced above the
trend of the last few years.
Additional reductions occurred during the first 80 days of the expanded photo enforcement
program. Property crashes have been reduced by 12%, injury crashes by 17% and fatality
collisions by 29%
These are preliminary numbers based on a comparison to collisions on the metro Phoenix
freeway system from September 26th 2007 to December 16th 2007 which takes in approximately
80 days.
