Safety Campaign * USA - Alabama state patrol issues nearly 23,000 tickets
The state of Alabama is sending out a loud message that they are "taking back the highways" to combat increasing traffic fatalities
AL,USA -GSU Signal (Atlanta,GA), by Dominique Huff -21 Aug 2007: -- The initiative places all available troopers from all divisions and all ranks on patrol duty from Aug. 13-17 in an intensive highway effort... Col. J. Christopher Murphy of the Alabama Department of Public Safety (DPS) reports that Alabama traffic deaths are at their all time highest since 1973... "At a time when traffic fatalities nationwide are on the decline, we cannot say the same is true for Alabama," he said. Traffic deaths rose five percent, bringing the 2006 total to 1,208; whereas nationwide deaths fell two percent...
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