Giles County Sheriff’s Department Warns Drivers About Speeding and Overweight Vehicles

The Giles County Sheriff’s Department has received multiple complaints about speeding on Haywood Creek Road, Maxwell Hill Road, and Blooming Grove Road. The department reminds everyone that, even with busy schedules, speed limits are in place to protect all road users. Speed limits are the maximum legal speeds for a specific road, designed to improve safety and reduce accidents.

Speeding is dangerous regardless of your driving experience. It reduces your ability to safely steer around other vehicles, obstacles, or unexpected curves, increases stopping distances, and raises the risk of a crash. It can also increase the severity of injuries in an accident.

To keep the community safe, deputies will be enforcing speed limits and other traffic laws in these areas. Drivers can avoid tickets—and potential fines—by slowing down.

Additionally, there have been complaints about overweight commercial vehicles on the freshly paved Agnew Road and Old Agnew Road. Motorists should expect increased enforcement in these areas, in coordination with the Tennessee Highway Patrol.