VIDALIA &8212; Sometimes the need for speed strikes in Vidalia.

But it&8217;s not a safe need, and Vidalia Police are determined to slow things down.

Saturday, for the second time in more than a year, Vidalia Police stopped a drag race on their highways.

Two men were charged with drag racing across the Mississippi River Bridge and into Vidalia.

Vidalia Police Chief Billy Hammers said Charles R. Daniels, 20, 1174 Mooselodge Road, Vidalia, and William Van Stass, 19, 306 Briarwood Road, Natchez, admitted to racing each other from the Natchez side of the bridge to Vidalia.

Hammers said Sgt. Beverly Metcalfe caught the two men at the Wag-a-Sack Grocery on North Hickory Street.

&8220;It&8217;s not a big problem really, but every once in a while people just get frisky and want to drag race, but we catch them,&8221; Hammers said.

Concordia Parish Sheriff Randy Maxwell said he agreed with Hammers that drag racing was not much of a problem anymore.

&8220;Seven or eight years ago we used to have a problem with it on Highway 15 but that all stopped when we put the correctional facility there,&8221; Maxwell said.