Holiday travel safety tips

QUINCY (WGEM) – Native legislation enforcement stated with so many individuals hitting the roads this vacation, there are steps you’ll be able to take to just remember to’re staying protected.

Corporal Justin Dunn with the Missouri State Freeway Patrol stated carrying your seatbelt can save your life, however that’s not the one tip.

He stated the Thanksgiving vacation generally is a enjoyable, however tiring time.

Dunn stated drivers who select to get on the highway with out being correctly rested have so much in widespread with impaired drivers.

“They fail to keep up their lane, fluctuate their velocity, be aggressive drivers, not as calm or courteous so be sure you get night time’s relaxation earlier than you determine to journey once more,” Dunn stated. “If in case you have one other driver within the car and also you do get drained, and so they do really feel like they will drive, be sure you change off drivers.”

Dunn stated over final 12 months’s Thanksgiving vacation there have been greater than 1,300 Missouri visitors crashes, leading to 540 accidents and 12 deaths.

He stated MSHP is collaborating in Operation CARE or Crash Consciousness Discount Effort.

Which means each obtainable trooper can be out on the roads via Sunday.

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