Tips on Keeping Your Family Safe on the Road and in Your Home from Gardner MA Police Chief Eric McAvene
Gardner’s PD Chief was kind enough to speak with Gardner Magazine Publisher Werner Poegel about Winter Driving Safety and other Safety issues. The chief stated, “You can’t drive as fast on the roadways even when they’re treated….I’ve run into several times where people at a crash say, ‘I was doing the speed limit’, well…during these events you kind of have to adjust your driving behaviors for the road conditions.” The Chief also explained that there are two speeding laws in Massachusetts affecting drivers, the exact speeding law and a greater than reasonable law which takes affect when people should be driving slower. Chief McAvenue advises people to pay attention to the danger of hydroplaning with a heavy rain and with snow take the extra minute to clean your car off. And remember that with snow or ice or anything like that it obviously takes a lot further to stop. Listen here on any device. Click Play.
For more information about Winter Driving Safety from the National Safety Council, click here.
Other Community Safety Issues
We also spoke with Chief McAvene about other safety issues including officer safety, The North County Drug Task Force, the prevalence of fentanyl, the fact that narcan has saved at least scores but maybe hundreds of lives just in this area in the past year, the Domestic Violence Program, the help of home cameras to prevent property crime or catching perpetrators, and the effectiveness of the K-9 program.
