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RICHMOND - As traffic fatalities continue to claim more and more lives across the Commonwealth, the Virginia State Police are stressing the importance and necessity for all motorists to make driving safety a priority during what is traditionally the nation’s third deadliest holiday travel weekend.
“Virginia is losing too many men, women, teens and children to fatal traffic crashes this year,” said Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, Superintendent of the Virginia State Police. “State and local law enforcement have already had to make more than 600 death notifications to families because someone failed to buckle up, designate a sober driver, comply with speed limits or limit driving distractions.” During the 2006 Labor Day weekend, state police will once again participate in several enforcement campaigns aimed at promoting highway safety, enforcing traffic laws and deterring impaired driving.
Virginia’s Checkpoint Strikeforce anti-DUI campaign continues through Jan. 1, 2007. Through the utilization of sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols, the statewide campaign works to keep impaired drivers off Virginia’s roadways.
State Police will also be participating in Operation C.A.R.E., a state-sponsored national program that emphasizes safe driving. An acronym for Combined Accident Reduction Effort, Operation
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