November 21, 2014
Tennessee’s Highway Patrol and Shelby County officials are announcing dozens of arrests following an identity theft investigation. A news conference was held Tuesday afternoon in Memphis to discuss details of the investigation, which was done by the state Department of …
August 12, 2014
The Tennessee Highway Patrol is testing a software system that aims to increase the safety of motorists and decrease the number of crashes. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports the agency has been piloting a system called Crash Reduction Analyzing …
April 30, 2014
The Tennessee Highway Patrol says a blown tire on a North Carolina church bus was the cause of a fiery crash that killed eight people in three vehicles last October. Speaking at a news conference in Knoxville on Monday, Highway …
December 6, 2013
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and state Department of Safety and Homeland Security say a goal to have zero fatalities on Interstate 40 over the Thanksgiving holiday appears to have been met. Seven other states participated in the challenge that involved …
November 20, 2013
The Governor’s Highway Safety Office and the Tennessee Highway Patrol are reaching out to communities across the state to offer help in reducing traffic fatalities. The Tennessean reports that the agencies are putting more resources in counties that have the …
September 25, 2013
The Tennessee Highway Patrol has graduated seven new canine teams that specialize in explosive detection. The teams were presented with a certificate and badge at a special ceremony held recently at the agency’s training center in Nashville. The six-week training …
October 30, 2012
The Tennessee Highway Patrol is once again stepping up safety measures for Halloween. Colonel Tracy Trott says in a news release that troopers will be conducting increased patrols and using other enforcement techniques to look for aggressive or impaired drivers …