MURFREESBORO, TN - When Daylight Savings Time ends, more traffic crashes occur while people get used to driving in the dark.

Operation Fall Break will encourage drivers to be safer when daylight savings time ends Nov. 4 and standard time begins, said Rutherford County Sheriff’s Sgt. Austin Watson.

“Traffic crashes with serious injuries occur when daylight savings time ends in November,” Watson said. “The daylight time is shorter, and the dark is longer, making it harder to see at night.”

Rutherford County Safety Task Force officers will join Williamson County law enforcement officers working overtime on Interstate 840 for 24 hours from midnight to 11:59 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4.

Extra officers will patrol I-840, state Highway 96 West (Franklin Road), Veterans Parkway in Murfreesboro, and Jefferson Pike in Smyrna to remind drivers to slow down and follow traffic laws.

Murfreesboro Police Lt. Zachary Ferrell said, “Hopefully, we can slow this traffic down.”

Source: MPD