Tailgate Safety

In an effort to educate students about local laws and ordinances concerning alcohol and game day behavior, Safe Campuses Now is proud to work with campus and community experts to deliver educational Tailgate Safety events events each Thursday (before home football games) from 1-4 p.m. on the University of Georgia campus. These event will either be held at the Tate Student Center lawn or in the lobby of the East Campus Village Dining Hall.

The focus will be impaired driving, pedestrian safety, scooter safety, etc. We will provide tables, decorations, handouts, GOHS brochures, free popsicles and volunteers. UGA PD will be at each event doing mock field sobriety testing with the Fatal Vision Goggles. Attendees will also be entered into a drawing for a football autographed by Coaches Richt and Dooley.

These event will feature local law enforcement from the University of Georgia and Athens-Clarke County Police Departments. Student organizations with similar missions have also been invited to participate in these events.

In addition, we are working with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department's Traffic Division, the Georgia State Patrol and the University of Georgia Police Department to combine an enforcement aspect to these educational events. Checkpoints will be held every Thursday night prior to UGA Football home games.

• September 27, 2007
  Tailgate Safety, 1-4pm, Tate Lawn
  Evening Checkpoint, TBD
   
• November 1, 2007
  Tailgate Safety, 1-4pm, Tate Lawn
  Evening Checkpoint, TBD
   
• November 8, 2007
  Tailgate Safety, 1-4pm,ECV Dining Hall Lobby
  Evening Checkpoint, TBD
   
• November 15, 2007
  Tailgate Safety, 1-4pm, TBD
  Evening Checkpoint, TBD

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