Post by CMF Newsman on Apr 17, 2012 8:07:35 GMT -5
Few in Marion County could forget the heartbreak of Andrew and Adam Hughes; brothers, killed two years ago when their car ran off Highway 41 in a curve almost two years ago.
"The teen driving group is the one that concerns us most," says Clint Shrum, of the Governor's Highway Safety Office. "Especially with proms and graduations coming."
Monday, the GHSO journeyed to Jasper, to tell police officers and sheriff's deputies from throughout the Cumberland region, that the warmest winter in forty years brought out drivers in droves, and made the roads more dangerous.
Thirty-eight more people have lost their lives on Tennessee roads this year, compared to the same period last year; 23 of those deaths in March alone. "I wasn't aware that we were third in the state for speeding, and for alcohol-related deaths," Grundy County Chief Deputy Scott Hampton says.
www.wrcbtv.com/story/17465628/more-driving-more-deaths-buy-more-cops-more-stops
"The teen driving group is the one that concerns us most," says Clint Shrum, of the Governor's Highway Safety Office. "Especially with proms and graduations coming."
Monday, the GHSO journeyed to Jasper, to tell police officers and sheriff's deputies from throughout the Cumberland region, that the warmest winter in forty years brought out drivers in droves, and made the roads more dangerous.
Thirty-eight more people have lost their lives on Tennessee roads this year, compared to the same period last year; 23 of those deaths in March alone. "I wasn't aware that we were third in the state for speeding, and for alcohol-related deaths," Grundy County Chief Deputy Scott Hampton says.
www.wrcbtv.com/story/17465628/more-driving-more-deaths-buy-more-cops-more-stops