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THP plans a busy weekend
The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) will conduct a variety of traffic safety initiatives and utilize data-driven enforcement strategies during the Fourth of July holiday period to help reduce serious injury and fatal crashes across the state. The traffic safety campaign began this morning and will conclude at midnight on Monday. Seven people were killed in Tennessee during last year’s 72-hour Fourth of July holiday period, and of last year’s seven traffic fatalities, four were vehicle occupants and one was a motorcyclist. Two of the individuals killed were not wearing seat belts and two of the traffic deaths were alcohol-related. State troopers arrested 68 individuals statewide on suspicion of impaired driving and cited 1,785 motorists for violation of the seat belt law during last year’s holiday. During the first six months of 2016, 45 percent of the state’s traffic fatalities were unrestrained motorists and 16 percent were due to an alcohol-impaired driver. Preliminary statistics indicate 481 people have died on Tennessee roadways so far this year, an increase of 55 deaths compared to this time in 2015.
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