Speeding doesn't always kill, it can also result in severe brain injury.

That's the message the RCMP and the Alberta Government's Transportation department are trying to get across in the month of April.

Sergeant Brent Hawker with the High River RCMP says it's all part of the selective traffic enforcement program.

"As many of us are aware lots of collisions result in death, but there are also collisions that result in personal injury and brain injuries are one of the ones they've wished us to focus on for this month," Sgt. Hawker says. "Each month the initiatives change so the month of May is the young drivers and distracted drivers and June is cycling, road construction, off highway vehicles and drivers who are under fatigue."

Also this month the RCMP's new Annual Performance Plan goes ahead and under Traffic Enforcement is the reduction of injury accidents, education and enforcement of distracted driving laws as well as intersection violations and school zone patrols.

In the last five years 451 people were killed in traffic related collisions while 11,753 were injured.

"Brain injuries tend to be injuries that assumes we can't overcome easily and as a result of that they require prolonged care in hospital, they usually have family or friends that need to provide care to these people so the idea is to request that people slow down, not only to consider the deaths that occur but the injuries that occur as well," Sgt. Hawker says.

The government points out demerits for speeding range from two points for going over the speed limit less than 15-kilometres an hour to six points for going over by more than 50-kilometres an hour.

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