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An anti- speeding campaign that aims to tackle speeding across Georgia and several Southern States ends on July 21. These types of campaigns are extremely important in the effort to reduce the number of auto accidents involving catastrophic personal injuries and wrongful deaths.

Operation Southern Slow Down included Georgia as well as a few neighboring states and involved additional enforcement against speeding drivers. The campaign started on July 15, and targeted both speeding as well as aggressive or rash drivers.  The aim was to crack down on these drivers and pull them off the roads.  This was the eighth such campaign that included Georgia and the other Southern States,  and officials believed that this was the right time to remind drivers about the need to drive at safe speeds at all times.

The  need to remind drivers of the risks of speeding is especially stronger during summer when there are far more motorists on the road and when everyone is in a hurry to get to their holiday destinations.  Speeding  is one of the biggest killers on American roads with more than 11,000 car accident wrongful deaths in 2022 directly linked to high speeds.   The number of speeding-related car accidents in 2022 was  a 25% increase from the numbers in 2018.  Georgia continues to grapple with a large number of motorists  who drive at high speeds putting themselves and other motorists at risk of serious personal injury or even death.  In  2022,  approximately 422 car accident wrongful deaths in Georgia were  directly linked to speeding motorists. That was a significant 56% increase from the number of speeding-related auto accidents in 2018.

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Georgia gets a mention in a new list of some of the worst driving states in the country, thanks to a new study which considered a number of factors including car accident rates while assigning rankings.

The rankings come from research conducted by Quote Wizard.  The Quote Wizard team analyzed more than ten million insurance quotes before arriving at these findings. The company releases its list of the worst driving states in the country every year and this year, Georgia is mentioned in the top 25 worst driving states in the United States. The state ranks at number 17 on the list.

The research team used several parameters, including the number of auto accidents, DUI violations,  number of speeding tickets issued in each state and the citations for violations for running a red light or using a cell phone while driving.  According to the research team, states that were ranked in the top 25 worst driving states had high auto accident rates compared to the states that were ranked at the bottom of the list which had lower car accident rates in comparison.

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