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Franklin Police to Conduct DUI Checkpoint
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Franklin, TN – On the evening of Friday, 04/13/2012, the Franklin Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Hillsboro Road near Poteat Place.
Last year, the Governor’s Highway Safety Office awarded the Department with a $50,000 grant to use for anti-DUI initiatives including DUI checkpoints, saturation patrols, training, and equipment. Overtime for officers working this checkpoint will be paid by that grant.
According to the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, impaired driving and impaired-related crashes constitute one of the nation’s leading health problems. These events result in more deaths each year than do total homicides, and alcohol is a factor in 33% of all crashes in the United States.
Franklin Police to Conduct DUI Checkpoint
Franklin, TN – On the evening of Friday, 03/23/2012, the Franklin Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Carothers Parkway near Gillespie Drive.
Last year, the Governor’s Highway Safety Office awarded the Department with a $50,000 grant to use for anti-DUI initiatives including DUI checkpoints, saturation patrols, training, and equipment. Overtime for officers working this checkpoint will be paid by that grant.
According to the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, impaired driving and impaired-related crashes constitute one of the nation’s leading health problems. These events result in more deaths each year than do total homicides, and alcohol is a factor in 33% of all crashes in the United States.
Franklin Police to Conduct DUI Checkpoint Friday
Franklin, TN – On the evening of Friday, 02/24/2012, the Franklin Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on Murfreesboro Road near Pinkerton Park.
Last year, the Governor’s Highway Safety Office awarded the Department with a $50,000 grant to use for anti-DUI initiatives including DUI checkpoints, saturation patrols, training, and equipment. Overtime for officers working this checkpoint will be paid by that grant.
According to the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, impaired driving and impaired-related crashes constitute one of the nation’s leading health problems. These events result in more deaths each year than do total homicides, and alcohol is a factor in 33% of all crashes in the United States. D[i
DUI checkpoint dedicated to family devastated by impaired driver
Life for Williamson County resident Millie Webb was forever changed after an impaired driver slammed into the back of her family’s car on Murfreesboro Road near I-65 in Franklin. It happened in 1971. The Webbs were on their way home, Millie – seven months pregnant. She was in the passenger seat, and her husband Roy was driving when a driver with a blood alcohol content of .08 hit them. Millie’s neck was broken and she suffered burns over 75% of her body. Roy was severely burned. Their 4-year-old daughter, Lori, and 19-month-old nephew, Mitch, were killed. Mitch died six hours after the crash. Lori endured treatment for burns covering 75% of her body before dying in the hospital two weeks later. Millie’s baby, Kara, was born premature and legally blind. “In a matter of seconds our lives were changed forever,” Millie said.
On Saturday, 01/28/2012, the Franklin Police Department will conduct its first sobriety checkpoint of the year. That checkpoint is dedicated to the Webb family. It will happen on Murfreesboro Road near Clovercroft Road, less than half a mile from where the Webbs’ lives were forever changed by an impaired driver. The checkpoint is scheduled to begin at 9:45pm.
Millie Webb, a former MADD National President, was instrumental in lowering the legal limit from .10 to .08. The Webb family helped to start Tennessee’s first Mothers Against Drunk Driving Chapter in 1981. Millie Webb will address officers at a pre-operational briefing at Franklin Police Headquarters on January 28 at 8:30 pm. She will visit the checkpoint police are dedicating to her family following that briefing.
Last year, the Governor’s Highway Safety Office awarded the Department with a $50,000 grant to use for anti-DUI initiatives including DUI checkpoints, saturation patrols, training, and equipment. Overtime for officers working this checkpoint will be paid by that grant. According to the Governor’s Highway Safety Office, impaired driving and impaired-related crashes constitute one of the nation’s leading health problems. These events result in more deaths each year than do total homicides, and alcohol is a factor in 33% of all crashes in the United States.
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