{"id":17683,"date":"2021-05-29T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2021-05-28T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T04:13:25","slug":"tennessee-highway-patrol-to-increase-patrols-during-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2021\/05\/29\/tennessee-highway-patrol-to-increase-patrols-during-memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Highway Patrol to increase patrols during Memorial Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-38445\" title=\"Tennessee Highway Patrol - THP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/thp-logo-e1277182702793-176x200.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Highway Patrol - THP\" width=\"176\" height=\"200\"><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) plans to increase patrols and utilize a variety of traffic safety enforcement tools to reduce the number of serious injury and fatal crashes across the state during this year\u2019s Memorial Day holiday period. The THP will conduct saturation patrols, seat belt and sobriety checkpoints, as well as increased visibility on high-crash corridors throughout the summer to reduce serious injury and fatal crashes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMemorial Day signals the start of summer travel,\u201d said Colonel Matt Perry. \u201cWe are coming out of a pandemic that created severe and unique challenges for us all. With this, we see traffic fatalities on the rise. Now that more vehicles are getting back on the road, we need you now more than ever to drive safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63011\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Traffic-Stop2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63011\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63011\" title=\"Tennessee Highway Patrolman on a traffic stop.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Traffic-Stop2-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Highway Patrolman on a traffic stop.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Highway Patrolman on a traffic stop.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Troopers will be proactively enforcing speeding, driving under the influence, seat belt, and reckless driving laws this weekend and throughout the summer months,\u201d said Colonel Matt Perry. \u201cThese avoidable behaviors have continuously been identified as contributing factors to injury and death on the roadways of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, 12 people were killed in vehicle crashes during the Memorial Day weekend in Tennessee,\u201d said Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Jeff Long. \u201cOur primary goal is to honor this Memorial Day weekend by reducing the number of crashes and traffic fatalities across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State troopers arrested 144 individuals on suspicion of DUI and ticketed 801 motorists for violation of the seat belt law during last year\u2019s Memorial Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security\u2019s mission is to serve, secure, and protect the people of Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) plans to increase patrols and utilize a variety of traffic safety enforcement tools to reduce the number of serious injury and fatal crashes across the state during this year\u2019s Memorial Day holiday period. The THP will conduct saturation patrols, seat belt and sobriety checkpoints, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[522,3724,549,284,6227,9375,2432,261,5442,692,693],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-memorial-day","tag-memorial-day-weekend","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-saturation-patrols","tag-seat-belt","tag-sobriety-checkpoints","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-safety-and-homeland-security","tag-tennessee-highway-patrol","tag-thp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17684,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions\/17684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}