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Delta officers hope drivers will bore them

Delta police kicked off a campaign this week aimed at promoting safe driving and reducing crashes.

Delta police kicked off a campaign this week aimed at promoting safe driving and reducing crashes.

Project Horseshoe was launched Monday morning with police challenging Delta drivers to "Make us bored!" The overall goal is to reduce collisions that can lead to commuter chaos.

The department's traffic section recently analyzed three years of data on crashes around the municipality and found the locations with the highest number of collisions are along 72nd Avenue, Nordel Way and the section of Scott Road between those two routes.

"The Delta Police Traffic Services Section will be increasing enforcement along these routes," said Sgt. Ryan Hall. "We will conduct high frequency enforcement for speeding, intersection offenses, distracted driving and any other violations we observe."

According to ICBC, some of the top highrisk driving behaviours include failing to yield, ignoring traffic-control devices, following too closely, speeding, improper passing and distracted driving.

Fines for those driving behaviours start at $167 and can go as high as $483.