Connecticut DOT: Camera-Alert System Stopped Hundreds Of Wrong-Way Drivers
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Wrong-way signage including lights and a surveillance camera on the Park Road off-ramp from I-84 westbound in West Hartford on Sunday, March 23, 2025. Photo credit: Doug Hardy, CTNewsJunkie
A wrong-way detection system was installed at the Park Road ramps to I-84 in West Hartford in January 2025.
By Julie Martin Banks, CTNewsJunkie.com
The state’s wrong-way alert and detection system is working, according to a state Department of Transportation spokesman, who credited the system with stopping hundreds of drivers who were heading in the wrong direction up highway ramps.
“The data that we are seeing is alarming, but assuring,” said Joe Cooper, DOT’s deputy director of communications, of the system’s impact on drivers. “Nearly 300 drivers have entered the highway in the wrong direction, saw the flashing lights, stopped, and turned around. Those are lives saved as a result of this technology.”
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