100 Days Of Summer H.E.A.T. May 24 - September 6, 2004
Georgia Launches Summer Long - State Wide
Highway Safety Crackdown On SPEED!!
100 Days Of Summer H.E.A.T. May 24 - September 6, 2004
(ATLANTA) Today the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety warned Georgia motorists to put the brakes on their high-speed driving habits now, before law enforcement across the state rolls out the One Hundred Days of Summer H.E.A.T. this Memorial Day holiday.
GOHS Director Bob Dallas said, “Summer H.E.A.T. will be tougher and last longer than any enforcement campaign ever put on the road by the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.” H.E.A.T. is a multi-jurisdictional traffic law enforcement campaign designed to stretch from Memorial Day through the Fourth of July and on past the September Labor Day Holiday.
H.E.A.T stands for “Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic.” For the first time in more than a decade, officers from more than 500 Georgia police agencies will focus their enforcement efforts primarily on SPEED. The initiative is aimed at reducing the high number of fatality crashes on Georgia’s highway systems by targeting aggressive drivers who climb behind the wheel with high-risk driving habits, ticketing speeders and unbuckled drivers, and sending impaired drivers to jail.
All summer long, bad drivers will be stopped at road checks or pulled over by concentrated patrols on interstates, secondary corridors and local highways. “And here’s where it really gets hot for all lawbreakers on Georgia highways,” said GOHS Director Dallas. “For those three months of HEAT police will actively search for speeders in passenger cars, eighteen-wheelers and motorcycles. If it runs the roads on wheels and it speeds, there’s a ticket waiting for that driver during Summer HEAT.”
The One Hundred Days of Summer H.E.A.T. will roll-out during the Memorial Day holiday with law enforcement officers concentrating on a statewide Click It Or Ticket campaign, enforcing Georgia’s Primary Safety Belt law.
Then in mid-summer, over the Fourth of July holiday and again during the Labor Day holiday in the Fall, police in Georgia will enforce Operation Zero Tolerance, sending impaired drivers directly to jail.
“Our message to Georgia drivers is that buckling-up and driving sober unquestionably saves lives, but excessive speed has become the newest deadly threat to everyone on the road in Georgia,” said Director Dallas. “The fact is, Unsafe and Illegal Speed are now included in the top three factors contributing to fatal crashes in Georgia.”
The One Hundred Days of Summer H.E.A.T. is especially designed to target speeders around Georgia’s metropolitan areas. “We’re putting the H.E.A.T. on Metro drivers because new DMVS data shows motor vehicle crash fatalities in Georgia actually outnumber the murder rate here by three-to-one!” said Dallas.
That translates to over 16-thousand people dying here in motor vehicle crashes in just the past ten years. The sad statistic is that crashes now account for half of the traffic congestion endured by Georgia motorists.
“On average, 29 people are killed in motor vehicle crashes here every week,” said Dallas. “That’s why we’re mounting the most ambitious highway safety initiative ever attempted in this state, all this summer.”
As the One Hundred Days of Summer H.E.A.T. wrap-up around Labor Day, Georgia law enforcement will partner with their counter-parts in neighboring Alabama, Florida, North and South Carolina and Tennessee to conduct “Hands Across The Border.” Police will hold joint road checks and concentrated patrols on connecting Interstate Highways and secondary routes in six states across the South East.
“We know car crashes are NOT a natural cause of death, said GOHS Director Dallas. “The crashes that kill, maim and injure thousands of Georgians each year ARE preventable. That’s the goal of Summer H.E.A.T.—prevent crashes and save lives.”
Highway Safety Crackdown On SPEED!!
100 Days Of Summer H.E.A.T. May 24 - September 6, 2004
(ATLANTA) Today the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety warned Georgia motorists to put the brakes on their high-speed driving habits now, before law enforcement across the state rolls out the One Hundred Days of Summer H.E.A.T. this Memorial Day holiday.
GOHS Director Bob Dallas said, “Summer H.E.A.T. will be tougher and last longer than any enforcement campaign ever put on the road by the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.” H.E.A.T. is a multi-jurisdictional traffic law enforcement campaign designed to stretch from Memorial Day through the Fourth of July and on past the September Labor Day Holiday.
H.E.A.T stands for “Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic.” For the first time in more than a decade, officers from more than 500 Georgia police agencies will focus their enforcement efforts primarily on SPEED. The initiative is aimed at reducing the high number of fatality crashes on Georgia’s highway systems by targeting aggressive drivers who climb behind the wheel with high-risk driving habits, ticketing speeders and unbuckled drivers, and sending impaired drivers to jail.
All summer long, bad drivers will be stopped at road checks or pulled over by concentrated patrols on interstates, secondary corridors and local highways. “And here’s where it really gets hot for all lawbreakers on Georgia highways,” said GOHS Director Dallas. “For those three months of HEAT police will actively search for speeders in passenger cars, eighteen-wheelers and motorcycles. If it runs the roads on wheels and it speeds, there’s a ticket waiting for that driver during Summer HEAT.”
The One Hundred Days of Summer H.E.A.T. will roll-out during the Memorial Day holiday with law enforcement officers concentrating on a statewide Click It Or Ticket campaign, enforcing Georgia’s Primary Safety Belt law.
Then in mid-summer, over the Fourth of July holiday and again during the Labor Day holiday in the Fall, police in Georgia will enforce Operation Zero Tolerance, sending impaired drivers directly to jail.
“Our message to Georgia drivers is that buckling-up and driving sober unquestionably saves lives, but excessive speed has become the newest deadly threat to everyone on the road in Georgia,” said Director Dallas. “The fact is, Unsafe and Illegal Speed are now included in the top three factors contributing to fatal crashes in Georgia.”
The One Hundred Days of Summer H.E.A.T. is especially designed to target speeders around Georgia’s metropolitan areas. “We’re putting the H.E.A.T. on Metro drivers because new DMVS data shows motor vehicle crash fatalities in Georgia actually outnumber the murder rate here by three-to-one!” said Dallas.
That translates to over 16-thousand people dying here in motor vehicle crashes in just the past ten years. The sad statistic is that crashes now account for half of the traffic congestion endured by Georgia motorists.
“On average, 29 people are killed in motor vehicle crashes here every week,” said Dallas. “That’s why we’re mounting the most ambitious highway safety initiative ever attempted in this state, all this summer.”
As the One Hundred Days of Summer H.E.A.T. wrap-up around Labor Day, Georgia law enforcement will partner with their counter-parts in neighboring Alabama, Florida, North and South Carolina and Tennessee to conduct “Hands Across The Border.” Police will hold joint road checks and concentrated patrols on connecting Interstate Highways and secondary routes in six states across the South East.
“We know car crashes are NOT a natural cause of death, said GOHS Director Dallas. “The crashes that kill, maim and injure thousands of Georgians each year ARE preventable. That’s the goal of Summer H.E.A.T.—prevent crashes and save lives.”
posted by East Point Police Department at 6/08/2004 09:12:00 PM
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