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"No Refusal" New Year's Edition Starts Tonight
Posted on December 28, 2012
Five people lost their lives in vehicular crashes on Tennessee
roadways during last year's New Year's Eve holiday period. Sixty percent of those fatalities occurred in alcohol-related crashes. That's why the Tennessee Highway Patrol will join with local law enforcement agencies to conduct another "No Refusal" DUI enforcement campaign during the 2012-13 New Year's Eve holiday, beginning at 6pm, Friday, December 28th and concluding at midnight on Tuesday, January 1st, 2013.
During the New Year's Eve period, two counties from each of the eight THP Districts will participate in the No Refusal campaign, including Knox and Sevier (Knoxville District), Hamilton and Marion (Chattanooga District), Robertson and Wilson (Nashville District), Crockett and Tipton (Memphis District), Carter and Greene (Fall Branch District), Cumberland and Overton (Cookeville District), Bedford and Maury (Lawrenceburg District), and Chester and Carroll (Jackson District).
As of December 27, preliminary statistics indicate that 1,000 people have died on Tennessee roadways in 2012, an increase of 70 deaths compared to 930 fatalities at this same time a year ago. An early estimate of impaired driving fatalities this year reveals that 238 people have died in vehicular crashes involving alcohol.
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