The Mississippi Highway Patrol issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol will kick off the 2018 Christmas Travel Enforcement Period with a safety awareness initiative titled “Making It Home for the Holidays.” This high visibility safety initiative will run through the end of the year and is designed to ensure safe travel for motorists while also reminding them of their responsibilities during the busy holiday season. The MHP 2018 Christmas Travel Enforcement Period begins Friday, December 21 at 12:01 a.m. and will conclude Tuesday, December 25 at midnight. All available Troopers will be utilized on all state, federal, and interstate systems to combat reckless driving along with speeding and distracted driving issues. Safety checkpoints will also be conducted throughout the period in order to enforce child restraint and seatbelt laws while also removing impaired drivers. MHP investigated 157 crashes with 0 fatalities during the 2017 Christmas enforcement period. If alcohol is included in celebrations, we urge motorists to designate a sober driver or have other means of safe transportation. Our goal is for everyone to make it home for the holidays. In order to accomplish this, responsible decisions and safe driving should be a major part of everyone’s holiday plans.
13 comments:
Right. They get federal grant money for this advertisement and then fudging the books and reports.
Why are they only doing this around the holidays and not year-round?
Why work more than you need to.
Did that grant money include donuts?
Drive sober or get pulled over....into a rest area...by a trucker
They are already in some places around the Metro area.
Went through 1 road block this past Thursday and
then another one Saturday night. Just a heads up!
The usual law and order hypocrites are out in force tonight. I pray neither of you are in an accident this holiday or need bond money to get out of jail.
Are the troopers perfect? No, they have faults just like all of us do.
Do they do a necessary service to make our highways safer? Yes they certainly do.
They work more details during holiday periods because there is much more traffic during those periods and more people who are intoxicated driving on the highways, endangering you, your family and all the rest of us.
They miss most holidays with their families to keep all of us a little safer.
I appreciate them and you should too. If you don’t then you are the one with the problem.
Where've you been 9:37? This subject has been discussed multiple times on this blog. We all are aware of the fake reports MHP has submitted over the years in order to justify these holiday grants.
Not a damned one of them is suffering the forced-ills of being away from family on a holiday. They are volunteering for overtime pay and loving it. Then they'll claim comp-time on top of that.
Meanwhile, all the white shirts on Woodrow will be busy as little fat elves doctoring the books.
Gotta get that ticket revenue up!!!
Talk about the war on Christmas. Whomever started this was in line with the grinch.
“We have to leave early so we don’t go through a roadblock. ..... Dad, it doesn’t matter if we’ve been drinking or not...this is an extortion racket!”
Here is a blood alcohol calculator, and in related news, Utah just lowered their blood alcohol for presumtive DUI to .05% from .08%.
https://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/interactive/alcohol_calculator.asp
You can register .05 after swishing with mouthwash.
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