CA Highway Patrol Establishes 24-Hour “Maximum Enforcement” Period

On Tuesday, April 27, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) established a “maximum enforcement” period. During this time (6 a.m. 4/27 through 5:59 a.m. 4/28), CHP planned to have extremely hard-hitting patrolling strategies, cracking down on speeding tickets in particular. 

“In 2025, CHP officers issued over 491,000 citations for speed-related violations, with over 110,000 crashes that resulted from unsafe speeds. The crashes led to more than 400 deaths and injured over 68,000 people, according to the agency,” as reported by NBC San Diego.  

In CA, one of the leading causes of crashes, especially on highways and freeways, is speeding. To help combat this, CHP aims to remove more dangerous drivers from the road. In order to do this, they implemented the FAST program. This program, which stands for Forwarded Actions for Speeding Tickets, partners with the CHP and the Department of Motor Vehicles to send citations directly to the DMV, which has the authority to revoke licenses. Specifically, this program will forward citations to the DMV of drivers who exceeded 100 miles per hour on the roads. 

For this crackdown in particular, speeding tickets ranged anywhere from $150 to $200. However, as ABC7 News pointed out, “another reason to avoid getting a speeding ticket is that it could increase your auto insurance up to $1,500 over three years.” This maximum enforcement period is just CHP’s first step in attempting to reduce speeding and collisions due to speeding, and it is likely that with the assistance of the FAST program established back in December, there will be more heavily enforced consequences for speeding overall. 

Sources: NBC San Diego, ABC7