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Police see 'quiet' Thanksgiving travel

Updated: Tuesday, 27 Nov 2012, 7:16 AM EST
Published : Monday, 26 Nov 2012, 6:24 PM EST

Krista Henery

TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) - Area law enforcement agencies said even though Thanksgiving travel has wrapped up drivers should be prepared to see more officers out patrolling the road during the next few weeks.

Officers describe this year's Thanksgiving travel as pretty "quiet."

"We were fortunate," Matt Devine with the Lafayette Police Department said. "No major crashes over the holiday weekend."

"We had a lot of traffic out there this weekend," Sergeant Kim Riley with Indiana State Police added. "We didn't have many crashes and had no fatalities. We did have a few property damages and personal injury crashes but nothing that I would consider as real serious crashes."

Riley said comparing this year's Thanksgiving travel to 2011 there wasn't anything out of the ordinary.

"Actually the holiday season has been more quiet than normal," Riley explained. "The last couple of years we have not had any fatal crashes during the Thanksgiving holiday."

Law enforcement agencies said they'll continue to monitor the roads at full force. They want to remind drivers to continue to play it safe the rest of this holiday season.

"We have officers from all the different agencies going out and doing the extra enforcement looking for impaired drivers, looking for seatbelt violations and child restraint violations," Devine said.

"We're putting extra officers out there who are working projects where they can go out and specifically look for drunk drivers, erratic drivers and people who are not using proper etiquette when they are out there driving," Riley said. "We're looking for the factors that are causing the problems out on the interstate and the highways."

Both Riley and Devine said with more holidays coming up next month more people will be attending more parties.

They said they want to remind motorists to always designate a sober driver so that everyone has a safe holiday season.

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