Governor’s Highway Safety Office Joins Anderson County Law Enforcement to Launch Holiday Traffic Safety Campaign

 

Oak Ridge, Tenn. – Kendell Poole, Director of the Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office, will join members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol and law enforcement agencies in Anderson County to announce increased seat belt and impaired driving enforcement during the upcoming holiday season. The event will take place Monday, November 10th at 1:00 p.m. at the Oak Ridge Civic Center.

 

There have been 16 traffic fatalities in Anderson County in 2014, which represents a 77% percent increase compared to 2013. This is the third highest year-to-date difference in fatalities that an individual county has seen in Tennessee. Seventy-five percent of the fatalities were unrestrained. In an effort to prevent additional fatalities and injuries, Anderson County agencies will be increasing enforcement and conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols.

 

WHO:   Director Kendell Poole, Governor’s Highway Safety Office

           Steve Dillard, Law Enforcement Liaison, Governor’s Highway Safety Office

           Captain David McGill, Tennessee Highway Patrol

           Sheriff Paul White, Anderson County Sheriff’s Office

           Chief James Akagi, Oak Ridge Police Department

           Chief Rick Scarbrough, Clinton Police Department

           Chief Jim Shetterly, Rocky Top Police Department

           Lieutenant Gary Wood, Norris Police Department

 

WHAT: Holiday Traffic Safety Campaign

 

WHEN: Monday, November 10, 2014

          1:00 p.m. EST

 

WHERE: Oak Ridge Civic Center

           1403 Oak Ridge Turnpike

           Oak Ridge, TN 37830

 

For more information about the press event, contact Amanda Brown, 615-686-1022. For more information about the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, visit our website at www.tntrafficsafety.org.