This year’s Memorial Day Holiday travel period in Georgia began on  Friday, May 24, at 6 PM and ends Memorial Day at 11:59 PM.

Georgia State Troopers and local law enforcement officers will be on high-visibility patrols on the interstates, state routes, and local streets keeping an eye out for impaired drivers and other traffic violations that could potentially cause a crash.

During the 2023 Memorial Day holiday, Troopers issued more than 13,000 citations, made more than 380 DUI arrests, and investigated over 500 crashes that resulted in over 300 injuries and 11 fatalities.

The highest number of traffic deaths during a Memorial Day holiday weekend occurred in 1969, when 27 people died in traffic crashes.  1969 was also the first year the Department of Public Safety (DPS) began keeping statistics on the Memorial Day holiday period.