gohs programs and campaigns

CLICK IT OR TICKET
Click It or Ticket (CIOT) is the most successful seat belt enforcement campaign ever, helping create a seat belt usage rate of around 90 percent. Across Georgia, day or night, the message is simple - Click It or Ticket.

Operation Zero Tolerance
Operation Zero Tolerance is Georgia's high visibility enforcement program that targets impaired drivers through concentrated patrols and sobriety checkpoints.

H.E.A.T.
H.E.A.T. is designed to educate the public and enforce laws related to impaired and aggressive driving. Each officer is armed with materials to educate Georgia citizens about our laws related to aggressive and impaired driving.

Child Passenger Safety
Whether you are looking for information on obtaining your first car seat, news for booster seats for toddlers, questions on where to inspect restraints for your children across Georgia, or even how to get more involved in promoting child safety, the Georgia Child Passenger Safety Headquarters will provide the materials that you need.

Traffic Enforcement Services
Home of GOHS Traffic Enforcement campaigns, materials, and data projects.

bicycle and Pedestrian Safety in Georgia
The Georgia Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Center strives to be the online clearinghouse for information regarding safety laws, events, suggestions, and tips for bicyclists and pedestrians around the state.

Motorcycle Safety
Home of motorcycle safety for Georgia. Learn how to get your motorcycle license today.

Teen Driver/Parent Agreement
The GOHS Teen Driver/Parent Agreement can be used as a guide and a contract for teens' rules of the road for safe driving when they are no longer required to have a parent or an adult driver accompanying them.

SADD Georgia
For more than 20 years, SADD has been committed to empowering young people to lead education and prevention initiatives within their schools and communities.

Georgia Young Adult Program
The Georgia Young Adult Program (GYAP) mission is to promote education and awareness to young adults about highway safety issues, such as but not limited to; underage drinking, impaired driving, destructive decisions, and other high-risk behaviors, in order to decrease crashes, injuries, and fatalities in young adult drivers.

100 Days of Summer HEAT
All summer long, aggressive drivers will be stopped at road checks or pulled over by concentrated patrols on the interstates, secondary corridors, and local highways. For the 100 Days of Summer Heat, police will actively search for speeders in passenger vehicles, eighteen wheelers and motorcycles.

Hands Across the Border
For six days leading up to the Labor Day holiday weekend, the Georgia State Patrol and local police and sheriff's deputies participate in the Hands Across the Border highway safety awareness campaign. Georgia law enforcement joined their partners from bordering states Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee in a major southeastern Zero Tolerance impaired driving enforcement effort.

Thunder Task Force
The THUNDER mission is to detect Georgia's high-crash corridors and reduce mounting highway deaths and serious injuries by introducing a high visibility law enforcement presence to help stabilize the extreme and illegal driving behaviors of careless motorists who cause those crashes.

Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)
The 2011 Governor's Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) documents our continued efforts to reduce highway crashes, injuries, and fatalities. Our multiprofessional SHSP incorporates education, engineering, enforcement, and emergency medical services to have the safest roads in the nation.

Distracted Driving Clearinghouse
From cell phones and iPods to fast-food snacks and driver drowsiness, there are more than enough distractions to keep Georgia motorists from focusing on our four-lanes. And now new national data is showing driver inattention is a key cause in most crashes and near-crashes.

Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act
The Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act directly addresses the leading killer of our young people – traffic crashes. The law significantly changes the way young motorists earn and maintain the privilege of driving by providing a controlled means for new drivers to gain experience and by reducing high-risk driving situations.

scooter commuter
All about scooter safety in Georgia.

georgia driver's education commission
Driver education programs in Georgia.

Safe Communities of Georgia
Safe Communities is a model used by communities all across the country to identify and address local injury problems.

Georgia is Buckle Up Country/Rural Roads Campaign
Georgia's rural roads contain a deadly math problem that the Governor's Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) wants to see solved. This conundrum shows our rural roads are more dangerous than their urban counterparts: When Georgia experienced 1,008 traffic fatalities in 2008, nearly half were in the heart of our rural communities.