Back To School Means Back To Sharing Roads With School Traffic
Back-to-school time means it’s back to sharing the roads with school traffic. Cookeville Police Captain Jeff Johnson said the most common issues they see come from drivers not familiar with driving in school zones. “With Tech students arriving back and new drivers from the high schools maybe not being aware of different elementary school locations […]
Cookeville PD Patrolling To Reinforce Hands-Free Law
Cookeville police are trying to reinforce the importance of the hands-free law through extra patrols targeting those violating the law. Traffic Captain Jeff Johnson said that the department saw a 17.8 percent increase in traffic crashes last year. Johnson said that cell phone use one of the top causes. “It’s a habit that people have […]
