Georgetown Police increasing speed monitoring on I-75

The Georgetown Police Department noticed a significant problem on a stretch of Interstate 75 running through their city, so they are taking proactive action.

“It was about four officers and a couple of guys from patrol helped. We stopped over 100 vehicles and issued well over 100 citations. The speeds were averaging above 85 mph and got a Corvette at 109 mph,” Chief Darin Allgood said.

That happened during a single four-hour period last week, during which the department increased their monitoring of the area. They did, and will continue to do, this because the amount of speeding infractions in Georgetown between mile markers 125 and 129 in both directions has become a serious problem. It’s also led to an abnormal number of accidents along this stretch…

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