Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

LET 2800 - Traffic Enforcement, Education, and Engineering


Examines law relating to registration of motor vehicles, driver’s license; vehicle code sections most often encountered and violated, regulation and traffic control, traffic accident investigation, traffic accident report forms; types and uses in a contemporary law enforcement agency. Lectures supplemented with in-class practical problem solving exercises to develop critical thinking and expose student to the practical side of traffic education, engineering and education and its application in a contemporary criminal justice system.

Requisites: LET 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Define the components of Ohio Revised Code motor vehicle offenses.
  • Define the components of a successful arrest, detection, apprehension, and prosecution program for suspects operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
  • Demonstrate understanding and successfully complete a traffic crash report.
  • Describe the basic components of traffic control including the proper supervision and control of officers in directed traffic patrol, saturation patrol, and selective traffic enforcement programs.


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