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Slovenia joins Europewide 24-hour speed enforcement crackdown

Xinhua, April 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

Some 250 Slovenian police officers were mobilized across Slovenia on Thursday to curb speeding which has become a major killer in the country, Slovenian Press Agency (STA) reported on Friday.

The national campaign put a 24-hour speed enforcement marathon in effect which saw 1,225 drivers caught speeding on Thursday, the fastest car was driving at 248 km/h on A1 highway, said the report.

The speed limit on the national highway is 130 km/h.

Drunk driving, speeding, and driving in the wrong lane have been the most common causes of serious traffic accidents in Slovenia. Twenty-three people have been killed since the beginning of 2015, according to police statistics.

Initiated by the European Union, the first one-day pan-European road safety action was joined by a total of 22 European countries. Endite