I recently was pulled over by a Provo City Police officer, who, unfortunately for me, wrote me a ticket. I was given the option of attending traffic school to keep the “points” off my record, and decided to do this. Traffic school was held on a snowy Saturday in downtown Provo at the Provo City building. The class was about an hour and a half long (we were told that classes in surrounding cities are much longer). The class overall was pretty interesting and was presented by a Provo City Police officer whose name escapes me. He was pretty entertaining, though.
At any rate, I learned that in the past few years, that Provo City has increased the number of officers assigned to patrol traffic and has actually hired officers whose almost sole purpose is to write traffic tickets. Although increased revenue of almost one million dollars annually for traffic ticket/traffic school tickets has helped replenish the city’s coffers, I learned that an even more important side benefit is that there are now significantly fewer Provo car wrecks than before the additional officers were hired. In my mind, this is a win-win situation all around: more money for Provo City, safer roads in Provo, and fewer injuries from fewer Provo car accidents.
Ron Kramer is a personal injury attorney practicing in Utah County, with a Provo office at 495 N. University Av., Suite 100. Mr. Kramer focuses on car accident, pedestrian, and truck accident cases. He also handles other types of personal injury cases, such as slip and fall and dog bite cases, and serves the cities of Springville, Lindon, Pleasant Grove, Cedar Hills, American Fork, Spanish Fork, Mapleton, Nephi, Santaquin, Price, Payson, and others.
Published by: Ron Kramer
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