Nearly 1,700 drivers received speeding tickets during a 24-hour enforcement blitz in Edmonton between 7 a.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday.

The drivers were ticketed during an initiative Edmonton police dubbed Operation 24 Hours.

The worst speeders included a driver who was clocked Tuesday afternoon going 203 km/h in a 100 km/h zone on Anthony Henday Drive.

"At 203 kilometres an hour, you have no chance for yourself to make any defensive driving moves," said Insp. Brian Lobay of Edmonton police. "Actually, that person puts everybody else on the roadway in terrible jeopardy."

Another driver was clocked on the Henday going 159 km/h. Officers also pulled over another person driving 49 km/h over the 60 km/hr posted limit on 23rd Avenue and 70th Street in southeast Edmonton.

An additional 444 drivers received tickets for infractions that ranged from not using a seatbelt to impaired driving.

Despite the perception that many speeders are young, brash drivers, Lobay said a whole range of people received tickets.

"We've got everybody from 16-year-olds to people in their seventies. There's really no profile for a speeder," he said.

Nearly 2,000 drivers were caught speeding during the first incarnation of Operation 24 Hours in September.