🚗Cranberry Township launches program to crack down on speeders

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — If you’re driving through Cranberry Township, you might want to check your speed.

It’s part of the township’s community wide campaign to get people to slow down.

It’s based off the National “Keep Kids Alive Drive 25” program.

This year, the township set up four radar signs. Officers are moving them every day. They even alert officers, who aren’t parked right there, if drivers are going 25 mph above the speed limit.

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Officials have set up 300 signs in more than 30 neighborhoods.

Cranberry Township police say even though the amount of traffic dropped during the pandemic, speeding has increased.

As the volume of cars hitting the roads picks back up, Cranberry Township officials want to make sure people are paying attention to their speed.

“We just want them to remember to take a little extra time. Be safe and hopefully we don’t have any fatalities or tragic incidents happen,” said Lt. William Ahlgren from Cranberry Township Police Department.

The radar signs are used all year long, and the township runs this campaign twice a year: right when the kids start the school year, and when they get out for the summer.

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