Law enforcement officers will be joining with others nationwide in preparing for a busy holiday travel season as motorists take to the highways for the Christmas and New Year’s holiday weekends.
Operation Zero Tolerance DUI Crackdown is already under way with sobriety checkpoints to be placed at strategic locations throughout the holiday period, according to the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. Officials are urging everyone to wear proper safety belts and to use child safety seats, pointing out that is the best defense against a drunk driver.
The GOHS urges those who do drink to appoint a designated driver and remind that anyone breaking DUI laws will go to jail.
“No matter who you are, what you drive or where you drive it, when you’re caught driving impaired, you will be arrested. No warnings. No excuses. No exceptions,” said GOHS Director Bob Dallas.
Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Safety Col. Bill Hitchens said the Christmas and New Year’s holiday periods are each 78 hours long and warned they could be deadly for motorists.
The Christmas holiday travel period begins Thursday at 6 p.m. and ends at midnight Sunday. The New Year’s travel period begins on Dec. 30 and ends at midnight, Jan. 2.
