Holiday Driving Safety

Safety Alabama State Troopers Take Back Our Highways starts Wednesday

by Chad Petri

Published: Sun, December 14, 2008 - 10:39 pm CST Last Updated: Sun, December 14, 2008 - 10:42 pm CST

If you’re travelling this holiday season, Alabama State Troopers aren’t messing around.

“We’ll have every available state trooper on the highway looking for aggressive driving, speeders, people who choose to drink while impaired and get on the highways,” says Corporal Joe Piggott with the Alabama Highway Patrol. He says the seasonal “Take Back Our Highways Campaign” is once again safety centric.

“Our goal is to get them where they need to be safely there’s some things we know are going to happen that we have no control over, we know it’s going to be crowded at the tunnel, hopefully the weather will be nice,” says Piggott. Many drivers like Melissa Rankins say even though their gas bill is ticking down, they’re travelling less.

“They just need to be careful because it’s real crazy this time of year because people are going shopping and everything and everything’s crowded,” says Melissa. The program starts Wednesday and ends on Christmas Eve.

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behonest Says:

Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:13 am

Here we go again, Merry Christmas. Let’s do them a favor… Boycott speeding!!! Yeah, that’s right, really focus on doing exactly the speed limit everywhere you go. Don’t give them the pleasure of pulling you over and collecting your hard earned, difficult to come by Christmas money so they can buy more Batmobiles and unmarked Starsky and Hutch cars. Then they collude with the insurance companies, who pay the state big $ to release the motor vehicle records so that they can have an excuse to gouge you more for committing the horrific crime of doing 74 in a 65. They should really appreciate that, right?

Alabama Patriot Says:

Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:14 am

The gas prices are going up again. I’m staying home.