Saturday, October 21, 2017

Chief Sacco - have you seen the Police Blogs in Your "Safe City" which isn't "yours"


FORBES quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

We may not have the power to create the world we want immediately, but we can all start working on the long term today.

In Berlin, by the wall, you were five feet ten inches tall!
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Daniel Donato, 27, of 650 Blais St., Berlin was indicted on a charge of criminal threatening.

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Mass. car crash deaths surge; experts blame distracted driving - The ...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/02/16/mass...deaths...driving/.../story.html
Feb 16, 2017 - Mass. car crash deaths surge; experts blame distracted driving .... Methuen police misled Spanish-speaking drivers suspected of DUI, lawsuit ...

[PDF]Sobering Facts: Drunk Driving in Massachusetts - Centers for Disease ...

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/.../impaired_driving/drunk_driving_in_ma.p...
Keep Massachusetts safe. Keep drunk drivers off the road. This fact sheet provides a snapshot of alcohol-involved deaths and drunk driving and an overview of ...














“Eighty percent of travel in Montana is on rural roads,” says Jim Lynch, director of Montana’s Department of Transportation, head of its Highway Traffic Safety Office, and the governors’ representative for highway safety, “So most crashes involve speeds in excess of 55 miles per hour. A more urban state like Massachusetts has less than 6% of its drivers on rural roads–the majority of its traffic is in urban environments at slow speeds. We also have much longer emergency response times because of the distance; the average response time in Massachusetts is about 20 minutes, while in Montana it’s an hour and 20 minutes. So an accident in Montana is far more likely to be life-threatening.”
 https://www.forbes.com/2008/11/20/driving-drunk-highway-forbeslife-cx_sw_1120drunk.html