Illinois Speed Awareness Day

July 23, 2025

Register for Speed Awareness Day

Speed Awareness Day 2025 Media

What You Need To Know

In 2016, the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police (ILACP) founded Illinois Speed Awareness Day. Speed Awareness Day was a combined statewide effort involving public and private stakeholders partnering to address the issue of excessive speeding on Illinois roadways and the deadly impact speeding has on traffic safety. In 2022, the initiative expanded to include partnerships with law enforcement agencies located in NHTSA Region 5 states of; Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. For 2023, Speed Awareness Day is expanding to include NHTSA Region 7 states of; Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. In 2024, we supported IDOT and NHTSA's efforts for Speed Awareness Day.

Speed Awareness Day is a two-pronged effort, combining an education/public outreach component, along with a high visibility enforcement effort. Participating law enforcement agencies will need to assign a point of contact (POC) to handle agency registration and reporting requirements.

To register your agency's participation, go to: Register for Speed Awareness Day

Also, don't forget to post about 2025 ILACP Speed Awareness Day on your social media platforms. This is another important part of spreading awareness.

Agencies have the flexibility to set their own enforcement hours during the day-long campaign with a focus along high traffic/crash corridors in their jurisdiction. There is no minimum or maximum number of enforcement hours that need to be scheduled. Grantees that have Additional Enforcement hours approved for FFY24 can use those hours to schedule focus, high visibility enforcement during this initiative. For those grant agencies that do not have Additional Enforcement hours for this grant year, contact me to discuss what options you may have to participate.

The ILACP goal is to build and coordinate a High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) program to include public and private partnerships to address the issues of excessive speeding. By combining efforts, a common goal can be achieved: reduce crashes, prevent injuries and more importantly – Save Lives through proactive enforcement and public awareness.

ATTENTION: Once your Speed Awareness Day enforcement efforts have been completed your agency will need to report your outreach and enforcement activity using the ILACP online portal link. This ILACP activity report combines both grant- funded, and non-grant funded activity. This report is in addition to the IDOT/BSPE - STEP grant BSPE205 report.

If you have an IDOT/BSPE STEP or Mini-Grant, make sure to only include grant-funded speed awareness day activity on your BSPE205 report.

2025 Speed Awareness Day Crash Data