An effort is underway to crack down on speeding drivers.

South Carolina law enforcement join those in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee in a concentrated effort to reduce speeds on interstates and state highways.

With more people traveling for the summer, Lancaster Police Chief Don Roper said it was important for his officers to join what they're calling 'Operation Southern Slow Down.'

“We’re part of a traffic enforcement grant and our officers, they go out and they look at areas where we've identified problems with speeding," Roper said. "On some of the larger roadways we're seeing, you know, 90s up to 100 miles an hour sometimes.... We’re trying to reduce speeding so that we can reduce traffic collisions and with doing that trying to reduce traffic fatalities.”

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