Speed Limit

A 21-year-old allegedly impaired Windemere woman spotted driving 145 mph along I-75 in Lee County by the FHP, took troopers on a chase Thursday morning that ended when she exited on Colonial Boulevard and was stopped after speeding along surface streets at 120 mph.

The Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Transportation, and other Southwest Florida law enforcement agencies, talked about their involvement Monday in “Operation Southern Slow Down,” a week-long speed enforcement awareness campaign with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the southeastern states of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

The Florida Legislature passed a bill to boost the speed limit on the state’s highways, but the governor says he won’t allow the proposal to become…

It was a real squeaker of a vote on the House side. Members didn't divide along party lines. It was more about fear."Got three kids, two of which have…

A state House committee agreed this morning to let the Department of Transportation raise highway speed limits to as high as 75 miles an hour if it wants…

Florida may join 16 other states that have speed limits above 70 miles per hour. A bill that could potentially raise the speed limit has passed its first…