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Show Accident reduction to be stressed on holiday week Once again, Utah Highway patrolmen will team with members of the highway patrols of the surrounding states in a special program to help reduce traffic accidents during the coming spring and summer holiday weekends. The program, called Combined Accident Reduction Effort "CARE", is an extension of a national CARE program successfully adopted for use in other states. "Basically, the CARE program involves in-volves an extensive patrolling effort with creation of heightened public awareness of the dangers of holiday driving." explained Robert Reid, Colonel, Utah Highway Patrol. Beginning with the Memorial holiday, the maximum force of the Utah Highway High-way Patrol will be on duty throughout the long Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day weekends. This concentrated con-centrated enforcement effort will also continue across state lines as surrounding state agencies incorporate this same CARE program. Colonel Reid said that since so much holiday travel is interstate, especially heavy patrols will be concentrated on the interstate highways. "We want the motorist to know we're out there, and we'll be especially enforcing the 55 mile per hour speed limit, improper to ! usage, and following too close!; j Special emphasis will be placed on if problem drinking driver, with 1: ditional personnel assigned to Ii Alcohol Safety Action Project tee When a driver crosses a state fiat can be sure the next state is patrol just as stringently. We want to re:: motorists that the combined effort s exactly that a combined inters intensive patrolling effort. "Remember the practice of tnrci :; on vour lights for holiday drivisg . said Colonel Robert Reid. "We wa3 public to do that again, 'Light up K Operation CARE.' Your vehicle w more visible to other drivers-anl. ; headlights will help remind drivers that this is a time to ;; especially careful on the hig ;; Besides heaw patrolling of inte(S; ;) highwavs, patrolmen will concE-on concE-on some "high fatality corridors m- state. These are "accident pn :; highways, especially dangerous"1 . trawlers on holidays. Be especially careful w J Memorial Day weekend and . m Utah Highway Patrol rtdu needless fatality rate. Promoter and drive 55. |
