PennDOT, Police, Safety Partners Launch ‘Operation Safe Holiday’ Campaign Across Southeast Pennsylvania

PennDOT, Police, Safety Partners Launch 'Operation Safe Holiday' Campaign
Across Southeast Pennsylvania

12/1/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), the Chester County

District Attorney, the West Goshen Police Department, Main Line Health's
Paoli
Hospital, AAA Mid-Atlantic and Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital held a news
conference
today at Paoli Hospital in Chester County, to announce regional
impaired-driving enforcement as part of 'Operation Safe Holiday,' a
campaign
encouraging safe driving through the holiday season.

Police discussed the use of sobriety checkpoints, roving patrols and
regular
traffic safety patrols to crack down on motorists who are driving while
impaired. The Pennsylvania State Police and hundreds of municipal police
departments statewide partner with PennDOT during "Operation Safe Holiday"
to
increase traffic safety enforcement through the New Year's holiday.

The operations are part of the Pennsylvania High Visibility Enforcement
Program
and is funded partly by PennDOT's statewide distribution of federal funds
from
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

PennDOT reports that the holiday season continues to be the leading time
period
for traffic crashes. In 2015, there were 3,741 crashes and 31 fatalities
statewide during the Christmas and New Year travel periods. Of those, 524
crashes and 10 fatalities were impaired-driving related.

PennDOT encourages motorists to always plan ahead by either designating a
sober
driver or arranging for alternate transportation.

To learn more about PennDOT's efforts to prevent impaired driving or other
safety initiatives, visit www.penndot.gov/safety.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by
visiting
www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides
traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and
access
to more than 770 traffic cameras.

511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and
Android
devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional twitter alerts
accessible
on the 511PA website.

For more PennDOT information, visit www.penndot.gov. Follow Local PennDOT
Information on Twitter at www.twitter.com/511PAPhilly, and follow the
department on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/pennsylvaniadepartmentoftransportation and Instagram at
www.instagram.com/pennsylvaniadot.

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