CHICAGO — IL police are stepping up seat-belt and drunken driving enforcement over the long Thanksgiving weekend.
Police will be scouring roadways in a five-state mobilization effort covering Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ohio.
Michael Witter is regional administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and he says the goal is to save lives.
During the 2008 Thanksgiving holiday season, the most recent data available, 1,120 people died in vehicle crashes nationwide. In cases with seat-belt information available, more than half of those killed weren’t buckled up.
