Hands Across the Border 2004 mattmontgomery  at:  9/29/2004 3:05:10 PM   HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER 2004 For six days leading up to the Labor Day holiday weekend, the Georgia State Patrol and local police and sheriff’s deputies participated in the 13th Annual Hands Across the Border highway safety awareness campaign. From Sunday, August 29 through Friday, September 3rd, 2004, Georgia law enforcement joined their partners from bordering states Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee in a major southeastern Zero Tolerance impaired driving enforcement effort. Motorists who stopped at road checks and Visitors Centers in Georgia and bordering states received seatbelt, child safety seat and impaired driving brochures. This year, Hands Across the Border was part of the “One Hundred Days of Summer HEAT” campaign sponsored by the Georgia Governor's Office of Highway Safety to raise awareness about the deadly consequences of speed, drunk and drugged driving, and failure to use safety belts and child restraints. For more information on Hands Across the Border, visit: http://www.gahighwaysafety.org/hands.html           Drive Safely Work Week Scheduled for October mattmontgomery  at:  9/17/2004 3:09:22 PM   October 4-8, 2004 is Drive Safely Work Week! Safe Drivers are Good Company. Make Safe Driving Your Business Every 5 seconds a crash occurs on our nation's roadways. Every 7 seconds a property damage crash occurs. Every 10 seconds there is a traffic-related injury. Every 12 minutes someone dies in a crash. Driver error contributes to approximately 90 percent of these crashes. How safe are your employees? Sponsored by the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety, Drive Safely Work Week is a national workplace traffic safety campaign designed to help employers protect their employees by promoting safe driving on and off the job. For more information on DSWW, visit: http://www.gahighwaysafety.org/dsww.html           Important Change to the Project Director's Meeting mattmontgomery  at:  9/17/2004 1:03:47 PM   NEW INFORMATION FOR SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2004--Due to the low number of people requiring training at the 2004 Project Director's Conference, the location for this year's conference has been changed to the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, Georgia for October 6th, 2004. Training will start at 10 a.m. The GPSTC is located at 1000 Indian Springs Drive in Forsyth right off of the I-75. (Directions to the Training Center from Atlanta: GPSTC directional signs are posted prior to the exit.Traveling south on I-75, take exit number 188, turn right at the stop sign. Go 0.5 mile and turn left across the railroad tracks on the Training Center access road). Contact your GOHS planner for more information if needed. For more information, click on: http://www.gahighwaysafety.org/prodirectseptzf.html           Safety 2 Kids Safety Fair at Gwinnett Place Mall mattmontgomery  at:  9/13/2004 3:26:55 PM   SAFETY 2 KIDS: Free Safety Information and Products for Kids It can be tricky for moms and dads to navigate the vast array of health information, necessary screenings and simple ways to prevent accidents.  That's why GOHS, Easter Seals, and WSB-TV have partnered together to bring Atlanta parents a first-of-its kind event that brings all of these services and resources together in one place.  SAFETY 2 KIDS is all about kids, health, safety and accident prevention Taking place on Saturday, September 25 at Gwinnett Place Mall, the free event will provide the following expert health services: Health screenings Tips for accident prevention and safety Child fingerprinting Experts to answer questions Children's activities And much, much more GOHS will provide and fit child safety seats and bicycle helmets. For more information, visit http://www.northgeorgia.easterseals.com or download the PDF brochure here.           Views from Effingham County Safety Caravan mattmontgomery  at:  9/10/2004 10:54:57 AM   FACTS FROM THE HIGHWAY SAFETY CARAVAN TO EFFINGHAM COUNTY The Safety Caravan is conducted annually by the Governor's Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) in communities which have specific traffic safety issues. Seat belt use, speeding, DUI and teenage driving were among the reasons Effingham County was chosen for the event. Recent teen crashes and fatalities related to speeding and not using seatbelts prompted county and city law enforcement officials to band together and increase public awareness. The Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute (GTIPI), a part of the University of Georgia's Cooperative Extension Service, assists GOHS with the educational component of the Caravan each year.  Special thanks goes out to Steve Davis from GTIPI and Alex Cabral from GOHS who helped make the Caravan a huge success. To view all the photos and a report from the Traffic Safety Caravan, click on: http://www.gahighwaysafety.org/pwcaravan.html      First Page   Prev. Page   Next Page   Last Page

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