NASHVILLE --- The commissioners of the Tennessee Department of Transportation
(TDOT) and the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS)
today announced specific actions their agencies are taking to help curb the
number of traffic fatalities in Tennessee. As of October 17, there have been 800
people killed on Tennessee roadways in 2013. That is the same number of
fatalities this same time last year.
See the entire article at: https://news.tn.gov/node/11538
Are our slow processes for obtaining search warrants contributing to fatalities?
When an additional 2-3 hours is spent attempting to comply with McNeely, the officer is off the road. Officers on the road provide a great deal of deterrence. Officers in an office do not. The lack of a law and a rule of criminal procedure that would allow electronic search warrants may not only be inconvenient, but deadly.
Prior to McNeely, our State had a average of 2.2 traffic fatalities a day. Since, McNeely, that average has jumped to 2.8 per day. There are a lot of factors that contribute to fatality statistics, but this one is unique to 2013.
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