Tennessee and Georgia Team Up for Hands Across the Border

NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office (GHSO) and the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security are teaming up with law enforcement across the state and in bordering states to reduce roadway fatalities through enforcement and education. The GHSO will join Tennessee and Georgia law enforcement agencies for a Click It or Ticket enforcement blitz on Thursday, May 26. The agencies will have media availability Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m. EDT at the First Tennessee Pavilion with the enforcement event to follow on Rossville Boulevard at the Georgia state line.

 

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

                        Clint Shrum, Law Enforcement Liaison, Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office

                        Lt. Jason Blackman, Georgia State Patrol

                        Captain David McGill, Tennessee Highway Patrol

WHAT:           Tennessee/Georgia Hands Across the Border Press Conference

 

WHEN:           Thursday, May 26, 2011

 

WHERE:        First Tennessee Pavilion

 

Safety advocates created the Hands Across the Border campaign in 1991 to bring about more awareness of safety belt and child safety seat use across the southeastern states. Participating state and local enforcement agencies sponsor education and community outreach events and provide motorists with literature about the dangers of drunk driving, as well as the importance of safety belt and proper child safety seat use. Law enforcement officials are buckling down on those not buckled up this summer and will show zero tolerance for anyone caught speeding, driving impaired or not wearing a safety belt.