Wednesday, January 2, 2013
The Georgia State Patrol reported its troopers investigated 586 accidents as of daybreak today, Jan. 2.
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Wednesday, January 2
Georgia State Troopers have investigated more crashes during this New Year's holiday than last year, with injuries rising above New Year's 2012 levels, and almost as many deaths – six so far this year, compared to seven last year . The GSP investigated three of the fatal traffic accidents, with local agencies investigating the other three. Troopers have investigated 585 accidents as of daybreak today, Jan. 1, which included 266 injuries and three deaths. During last year's entire 102-hour holiday, the Department of Public Safety investigated 296 accidents. Those accidents included 172 injuries and 7 deaths. Deaths have been investigated by the following Troop locations and local agencies: The fatal crashes investigated by the Georgia …
Monday, December 24, 2012
Another traffic fatality has been reported by the Georgia State Patrol, whose troopers investigated 685 crashes with 300 injuries.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
UPDATED 2:15 P.M., DEC. 26: Links to articles about Duluth and Smyrna fatal accidents are included. Seventeen traffic deaths were reported in the 102-hour Christmas holiday travel period,which began Friday at 6 p.m. and ended at midnight, Christmas Day, according to the Georgia State Patrol. There were 685 crashes with 300 injuries and 11 deaths investigated by the Georgia State Patrol (GSP). Other agencies have reported six traffic fatalities, including a fatal two-car collision in Smyrna just before midnight on Monday that claimed the life of a Marietta woman and a one-car accident in Duluth that claimed that driver's life on Christmas Day. The fatalities count is much higher than in 2011 already, when three traffic deaths were reported…
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
AAA South predicts little change in travel patterns and the National Weather Service says temperatures will drop by the weekend.
About 1.2 million people across the state of Georgia, including Cherokee County residents, will travel 50 or more miles away from home for the holiday weekend, according to AAA South. That's just a sliver of the projected 43.6 million people who are expected to travel around the country between Wednesday and Sunday to visit family and friends for Thanksgiving. That's 0.7 percent higher than the 43.3 million people who traveled last year. The majority of those people, 9.1 million, are expected to travel by car while another 3.1 million are expected to travel by air this year. The remaining, 1.3 million people, are expected to take some other means of transportation such as trains or buses. Holiday travel by car is half a percentage point …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
With damage to airports and flooding rampant, Holiday travel could be difficult this year.
It's safe to say that the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy will be felt for a long time up and down the Eastern Seaboard. One of the most immediate effects of the storm may be difficulties in holiday travel arising from flood and storm damage. Marci Zied of Canton's A Love of Travel travel agency doesn't see too many problems for holiday travelers as a result of Hurricane Sandy; in fact, she is leaving for Spain on Friday through New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. "We were worried because JFK was closed earlier, but it will be open to international flights by the time we leave," she said. "By Thanksgiving it shouldn't be an issue." Zied did say that New York's LaGuardia Airport, which handles more domestic flights, is closed due…
Tom Wood
8:28 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
That is a good question and the answer remains to be seen. We have plans to be in the Big Apple one week before Christmas...we will see how it all shakes out. more ›