{"id":272675,"date":"2026-05-15T19:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272675\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:45:18","slug":"results-of-may-15-distracted-driving-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272675\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of May 15 Distracted Driving Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(May 15, 2026) \u2014 The Cape Coral Police Department conducted a traffic saturation on May 15, 2026 to specifically targeting distracted driving. This operation was conducted citywide and resulted in 96 total citations.<\/p>\n<p>OPERATION TIME: 06:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m.<br \/>TOTAL TRAFFIC STOPS: 100<br \/>WARNINGS: 21<br \/>SPEED CITATIONS: 48<br \/>SEATBELT CITATION: 06<br \/>MOVING CITATIONS: 75<br \/>NON-MOVING CITATIONS: 21<br \/>VIOLATING TRAFFIC CONTROL\/SIGNAL DEVICE: 13<br \/>DISTRACTED DRIVING CITATIONS: 36<br \/>OPEN CONTAINER (DRIVER):\u00a000<br \/>OPEN CONTAINER (PASSENGER):\u00a000<br \/>.02 VIOLATION:\u00a000<br \/>CRIMINAL CITATIONS: 03<br \/>CITATIONS (TOTAL): 02<br \/>DUI ARRESTS:\u00a000<br \/>ARRESTS (OTHER): 03<\/p>\n<p>***The operation was paid for with FDOT sub-grant funding. Cape Coral currently ranks 4th out of 38 agencies in Distracted Driving for traffic fatalities and serious injuries on the Highway Safety Matrix \u2013 Ranking of Florida. To improve traffic safety in the City, the Department has partnered with FDOT\u2019s Traffic Safety Office to bring additional enforcement and education through the implementation of saturation patrols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(May 15, 2026) \u2014 The Cape Coral Police Department conducted a traffic saturation on May 15, 2026 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-272675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}