This week, the Town of Ramapo Police Department will be taking part in the New York State Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee “No Empty Chair” campaign. Each year, thousands of high school students across New York State look forward to attending their prom and graduation ceremony. These memorable moments for parents, siblings, educators, and the community become meaningless when a teen dies in a car crash. Regrettably, this scenario happens all too often, and law enforcement is tasked with making the difficult “knock on the door”. To reduce these tragedies the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC) developed the “No Empty Chair” (NEC) campaign in 2014 symbolizing a missing high school student for the prom or on graduation day.

During this five-day initiative RPD will be focusing on a different traffic safety threat each day of the week.

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