WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Orangeburg Co. town named a AAA 'traffic safe community'
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CHARLOTTE, NC (WIS) - Mount Pleasant, Hanahan and Elloree are the three South Carolina communities named grand winners of the 2009 Traffic Safe Community of the Year Thursday by AAA Carolinas' Foundation for Traffic Safety.
"South Carolina remains the second worst state in the nation for the percentage of traffic deaths involving alcohol," said Dave Parsons, president and CEO of AAA Carolinas. "The good news is traffic deaths overall dropped 15% last year to 920, along with a 13% drop in alcohol involved deaths and a 14% drop in motorcycle fatalities."
Traffic safety is a major public health issue for South Carolina, yet swine flu receives more attention than the three to five people that will die on our highways today.
"Making our streets safer is a team effort," said Parsons. "And South Carolina has several communities that have stepped up to the challenge."
Mark Keel, of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, also presented awards to local law enforcement and community representatives at the sixth annual awards luncheon at Seawell's Catering in Columbia.
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