The State - News from June 6, 1988

One year after the speed limit was raised to 65 m.p.h. on nearly 1,200 miles of highway in California, the results of the change are pleasing the California Highway Patrol and probably many California motorists. CHP spokesman Sam Haynes said in Sacramento that 51,000 fewer car drivers had been ticketed for speeding in the last year on the highways with raised speed limits, a 30% decrease from the previous one-year period. However, trucks on those highways are still subjected to a 55 m.p.h. limit. The CHP says that 6,500 more tickets had been issued to truck drivers on the 65 m.p.h. highways than in the previous year, a 70% increase. Overall, 24% fewer tickets were issued on those highways. Haynes said that decreasing the number of tickets issued was one of the goals of the CHP when it supported raising the speed limit.