Half of Georgia’s 55 hospital-reported snakebites this year have been in metro Atlanta and North Georgia. The state is coming off of its busiest year on record for snakebites in 2016, with 466 people bitten by snakes last year, and now snakes of all stripes are slithering into the open as the summer heat takes hold. But that doesn’t mean you’re likely to be bitten or that you should hack the head from every creepy-crawly out there — for every person in the hospital with a snakebite, 241 Georgians are injured on the road.