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Operation Southern Shield: Expect increased traffic enforcement in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina

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By On Common Ground News on July 20, 2021 Local News, Rockdale
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 “If you drive over the speed limit, look for blue lights…”
 —Lt Maurice Raines, Georgia State Patrol

 

ROCKDALE COUNTY, GA—Rockdale County is among Georgia law enforcement agencies that are participating this week in an initiative dubbed “Operation Southern Shield,” targeting speeding, distracted driving, drunk-driving and other traffic violations.

State and local law enforcement agencies in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina are participating in the initiative, which began on July 19, and ends on July 25.

Rockdale County Sheriff Eric Levett hosted a press conference today, July 20, announcing the operation with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety(GOHS), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Georgia State Patrol; GOHS H.E.A.T. units and local law enforcement agencies.

“Our ultimate goal is to save lives,” said Levett. “We’re sending out that message strong this week.”

Lt. Maurice Raines, Georgia Highway Patrol, said state troopers will be diligent in enforcing the law.

“If you drive over the speed limit, look for blue lights… I will tell you that not only if you decide to put down the hammer, we’re going to put the pen on the paper to slow you down,” said Raines.

Roger L. Hayes, director of Law Enforcement Services, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, said speeding and distracted driving have pushed up the number of deadly crashes in Georgia.

“2021 is on target to be the deadliest year. We have already had in the first half of the year over 850 fatalities on the highways in this state, and that is a 21 percent increase of where we’ve been,” said Roger L. Hayes, director of Law Enforcement Services, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.  “We’ve got to slow down. A  lot of it is due to speeding and lot of it is due to distracted driving. We’ve got to put the cell phones down.”

This is the fifth consecutive year that Georgia and the four other f states have worked together on the initiative.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an estimated 38,680 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the United States in 2020. This is the largest number of fatalities in the United States since 2007 and represents a 7.2 percent increase from the 36,096 fatalities that were reported in 2019, officials said.

While the number of overall traffic fatalities increased last year, estimates from the Federal Highway Administration show vehicle miles traveled in 2002 decreased by 430.2 billion miles from 2019. Speed is believed to be one of the factors for the nationwide increase in traffic death with speed-detection devices used by law enforcement agencies recording drivers traveling at speeds well above the posted limit.

The number of speed-related fatalities in the United States increased by 11 percent—from 9,478 in 2019 to 10,490 in 2020. The number of speed-related fatalities in NHTSA Region 4, which consists of the five participating states in “Operation Southern Shield”, also increased by 11 percent from 1,415 in 2019 to 1,571 in 2020.

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