Ohio State Highway Patrol is rolling out a new plan of attack to keep drivers safe.
Lt. Tim Grigsby said the highway patrol has looked into crash statistics from the last year. They've identified failure to yield as the major contributing factor to the injured and fatal crashes in Allen and Putnam County in the last year. The highway patrol has developed a plan and mapped out high target areas of enforcement. Those areas are where failure to yield has been most common or the severity is at its highest.
"We're going to run an enforcement detail focusing on failure to yield violations," Grigsby said. "Stop sign violations, red light violations, any time someone pulls out in front of somebody and doesn't have the required distance. That person has to aggressively apply their brakes. Those are the violations we're going to target."
The plan is set to go into effect for Thanksgiving through the end of the year.
