Highway Officials Pledge to Reduce Traffic Fatalities

The Governor and state highway officials pledged today to reduce the number of deaths on Tennessee’s roads by 10% by the end of next year. That represents 127 lives.

The pledge is part of the Strategic Highway Safety Plan, which all states are required to have. The plan calls for improving intersections and cracking down on speeders, drunk drivers, and those who don’t wear a seat belt.

Governor Bredesen hopes the strategy works because traffic fatalities have become too common.

“People accept them as a normal part of life, but you don’t have to. What this is about is just getting us refocused on the fact that a lot of people in Tennessee die on the highways and we need to do everything we can to prevent them.”

Click here to view the state’s entire Strategic Highway Safety Plan.