New Year's Driving Resolutions

AUSTIN, December 27, 2004 - While you're making your New Year's resolutions, DPS has a suggestion: add "Improve Driving Habits" to your list. Driving can be one of the most dangerous activities you engage in during the day, so taking a few moments to think about your driving is a good idea.

Here are some good driving habits to employ:

• Make sure everyone is buckled up.
• Drive sober.
• Use your turn signals.
• Do not tailgate.
• Obey the speed limit.
• Do not speed up, block lanes, slam or tap on brakes.
• Report extreme cases of reckless driving to the appropriate authorities.
• Do not retaliate, gesture or make eye contact.

During the New Year's weekend, DPS will have all available troopers on Texas roadways. Troopers will be looking for speeders, seat belt violators, reckless drivers and drunk drivers from New Year's Eve through midnight on January 2.

"Please resolve to drive responsibly this year," said Col. Thomas A. Davis, Jr., director of the DPS. "Wearing seatbelts and obeying the speed limit can save lives. And anyone planning to consume alcoholic beverages should have someone else-who hasn't been drinking-drive them home."

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