The Governor’s Highway Safety Office Launches Special Enforcement This November on Tennessee’s Rural Roads

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | 02:45am
“Operation 28” Buckles Down on Belts and Speed
 
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office (GHSO) is conducting a special high-visibility enforcement campaign that runs through November 22, 2009. GHSO Director Kendell Poole will join officials for a press event on Thursday, November 19th to remind drivers that wearing a safety belt is not only the best way to protect yourself in the event of a crash, it is also the law. Drivers will also be told that speed kills and law enforcement agencies will be conducting special enforcement to prevent unnecessary deaths along State Highway 28.
 
52 law enforcement agencies in 19 Tennessee counties are participating in thisenforcement blitz. 
 
WHO:                        Kendell Poole, Director, Governor’s Highway Safety Office
                                  Clint Shrum, Law Enforcement Liaison, Governor’s Highway Safety Office
                                  Chief Clint Huth, Dunlap Police Department
                                  Sheriff Ronnie Hitchcock, Sequatchie County Sheriff’s Department
                                  Sheriff Ronnie “Bo” Burnett, Marion County Sheriff’s Department
                                  Lt. Jeff Mosley, Tennessee Highway Patrol
 
WHAT:                      Announcing a special high-visibilityenforcement campaign continuing through November 22
 
WHEN:                      Thursday, November 19, 2009
                                    12:00 p.m. CST
 
WHERE:                    1827 Press Pickett Road
                                    Dunlap, Tennessee 37327
                                    (next door to Daus Building Supply on Highway 28)
 
 
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