ALDOT: Drive safely and plan ahead for holiday getaway travel

(WHNT) — With the holidays just about the corner, the Alabama Office of Transportation (ALDOT) is giving strategies for touring safely and securely with all the additional targeted traffic on roadways.

“Give the gift of secure driving to your passengers and some others on the road this getaway year,” reported Allison Green, ALDOT’s Generate Secure Alabama coordinator. “Safe driving starts with producing confident anyone in your car or truck wears a seat belt. Almost 60 per cent of these who died from a motor vehicle crash in Alabama in 2020 had been not carrying a seat belt.”

ALDOT’s ideas for harmless driving this vacation period incorporate:

• Buckle Up: Donning a seat belt can preserve your existence and it is the least difficult and most helpful way to decrease accidents in the course of a crash
• Travel Sober: Just a person drink prior to receiving at the rear of the wheel of a car or truck can impair contemplating, reasoning, and coordination, as a result endangering you and your passengers
• Strategy Ahead: Motorists arranging holiday getaway travel should strategy ahead, allow excess time to get to where by you are heading, and generate with no distractions

AAA expects a 28% enhance in car tourists this 12 months, which provides up to almost 100 million men and women.

In addition to offering security ideas, ALDOT also mentioned that no temporary lane closures would transpire on Alabama interstates from Friday, December 24 from 6 a.m. to Sunday, December 26 at 11:59 p.m. There also won’t be non permanent lane closures on interstates the pursuing weekend, from Friday, December 31 to Sunday, January 2.

For highway and traffic conditions in Alabama, stop by www.ALGOtraffic.com.