Cracking down on speeding and reckless driving on our rural roads. That’s what state troopers did for the last three months, beefing up patrols on back roads.

For some drivers on rural roads in Connecticut, speeders are a fact of life that leaves them shaking their heads.

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“It’s really scary because I feel like one wrong turn, you total your car,” Kaitlyn Cortez, of Wallingford, said.

“They’re having problems just as well as the inner cities. It makes no difference where people are,” Leslie Bird, of Hartford, said.

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But state troopers made their presence known during a three-month period of beefed patrols

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