South Dakota Highway Patrol urging safe travel over Thanksgiving holiday (Audio)
SDHP
November 25, 2020
PIERRE, S.D.–The South Dakota Highway Patrol will conduct a statewide operation in an effort to encourage those traveling this Thanksgiving to be careful.
Colonel Rick Miller, a Watertown native who’s now superintendent of the South Dakota Highway Patrol, says troopers also will be out on the road throughout the weekend…
This year’s Thanksgiving motor vehicle fatal crash reporting period covers 102 hours beginning at 6 p.m. tonight and ending at midnight Sunday.
Last year, South Dakota recorded 323 motor vehicle traffic crashes over the Thanksgiving holiday travel period that resulted in one fatality and 62 injuries.
