Media Advisory: Agencies Team Up to “Take Back Our Highways”

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Department of Safety is teaming up with the Alabama Department of Public Safety and the Mississippi Highway Patrol to “Take Back Our Highways” during the busy summer travel season. The intensive, joint targeted highway patrol program seeks to increase highway safety and reduce traffic fatalities on high-crash corridors, May 22-31, 2010.   A media event announcing the Hands Across the Border initiative will be held Monday, May 24, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. CST.

 

WHO:       Tennessee Highway Patrol, Alabama Department of Public Safety,
                THP Major Wayne Springer, THP Dist 7 Captain Steven Hazard,
                Richard Holt, GHSO

WHEN:     Monday, May 24, 2010

                9:30 a.m. CST

 

WHERE:   Alabama Welcome Center

                I-65 Alabama/Tennessee Border

 

Hands Across the Border was created in 1991 to bring about awareness of safety belt and child safety seat use across the Southeastern states. Law enforcement will show zero tolerance this summer for anyone speeding, driving impaired, or not buckled up.

 

Since 2007, The “Take Back Our Highways” program with Alabama and Mississippi has been a major component of the successful enforcement efforts to reduce fatalities and increase highway safety. The TBOH campaign overlaps with the high visibility Click It or Ticket campaign, May 24-June 6, urging all drivers and passengers to buckle up every time, all the time.