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For five days leading up to the Labor Day holiday travel weekend, the Georgia State Patrol and local police and sheriff’s deputies will participate in the 20th Annual Hands Across the Border highway safety awareness campaign. From Sunday, August 28th through Thursday, September 1st, Georgia law enforcement officers will join their partners from bordering states Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee in the major southeastern impaired driving enforcement initiative called Drive Sober Or Get Pulled Over. In Georgia, it’s Operation Zero Tolerance (OZT).
“Unfortunately, high risk drivers are not just a problem in Georgia, but rather all over the southeast,” says Director Harris Blackwood of the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS). “We are combating the same deadly drivers as our neighbors so Hands Across the Border gives us all a chance to combine our efforts. It reminds all motorists that whether they live here or are just visiting for the holiday weekend, police on both sides of the state line will be enforcing safe driving laws. We may have different uniforms and even different accents, but one thing’s the same. We’re all committed to getting impaired drivers off our roads.”
This year, Hands Across the Border is part of the “One Hundred Days of Summer HEAT” campaign sponsored by GOHS to raise awareness about the deadly consequences of speed, impaired driving and failure to use safety belts and child restraints. Remember, your best protection against an encounter with a drunk driver is always a properly buckled safety belt.