If you plan to take to the road this weekend for some holiday travel, don’t forget to use Trapster. With more Americans saying they will travel during the Memorial Day weekend than last year, according to AAA’s recent national survey, the risk of accidents and costly tickets will rise dramatically, making Trapster, the world’s most downloaded driving related app, a virtual necessity.

Here are some of Trapster’s safety tips for the weekend:

1. Checkpoints. Trapster shows safety checkpoints, which serves as a useful reminder not to drink and drive, and to call a cab; for those who haven’t been drinking, it saves time dealing with the subsequent delays.

2. Traffic. Use Trapster’s real-time traffic overlay feature to check where there is heavy congestion.

3. Driving to a unfamiliar city? Make sure to use Trapster to check the area for red light cameras, speed traps, enforcement points and speed cameras before you get there.

4. Safe Driving. Use a car dock and charger when running Trapster. Also, know where it’s legal to mount your car dock. In California, for example, you have to have it mounted in the lower corner of your window.

5. If you are traveling to your destination with family and friends in other cars, let Trapster’s Caravan feature help you all get there safer. With Caravan, see friends and other Trapster users in real-time on the map, and then easily send them audio messages, and even photos.

Trapster is tremendously growing. We are adding over 20,000 new users per day and Trapster users are entering an average of 8,000 traps each day. In turn Trapster’s user confidence in the system also continues to soar. In fact, this Memorial Day weekend Trapster will pass the 6 million user mark! Not to brag but Trapster has more users than popular social applications Gowalla, Foursquare, and Loopt combined.

Creative Commons photos from flickr: “Traffic Jam”, “31st October, 2006 DUI Checkpoint- Chico, CA“