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It’s that time of the year again: the season of holiday parties, spiked egg nog, and mulled wine is upon us, and what can often go hand and hand with alcohol during the holidays? Drunk driving rates will spike during the festive holiday season, and that’s why so many people are giving the gift of …
Ignition interlocks will be coming to California state-wide on January 1st, 2019, and that’s the best step to take to improve road safety. But 2019 can feel like it’s really far away when you consider some of the drunk driving arrests and crashes happening on California roads recently. One man from Placentia, California is the …
One drunk driving charge can be chalked up to a bad choice, and a lot of people stop at one, learn their lesson, and never drive drunk again. But some people don’t learn the hard way, and they rack up repeat drunk driving convictions. Take one man in Montana for example. He’s been arrested not …
What would happen if all drunk drivers blamed their victims? What if, although the driver was responsible for drinking alcohol and getting behind the wheel, and they alone started the car, drove, and crashed into someone, they somehow decided that their victim was to blame for the crash. You can imagine the devastation felt by the …
There’s nothing so scary as when a parent hands the car keys to their teen for the first time. There’s so many emotions associated with letting your teen go off and drive, especially considering that there’s a lot of data out there showing that teens are more likely to die in a traffic crash than …
It’s hard to send your child off to school on the school bus, even if it’s not his or her first time going. You need to be able to trust the person who is driving them, and you want to be sure that he or she has a clean driving record and makes responsible choices …
When you’re out for the night with friends and you have one or two drinks, you probably aren’t thinking about what could happen if you get stopped later on in the night for drunk driving. That ‘it can’t happen to me’ mentality is one of the reasons why so many people continue to drive drunk, …
There are ad campaigns, billboards, public service announcements in the form of videos, and checkpoints with locations published in local newspapers: with all of the information available on the dangers of drinking and driving, the very obvious counter-attacks designed to catch people who get behind the wheel after drinking, and the wide-spread publication of tragic …
With public service announcements, campaigns to promote safe driving, and checkpoints on most nights, it’s absolutely astounding that people still make the decision to drink and drive. But drinking and driving they must be, because the latest statistics compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that across the entire United States there were …
No one should need a reminder not to drink and drive. It is dangerous and could result in a crash that injures or kills you or innocent victims. Furthermore, the penalties ranging from prison time to an ignition interlock device, are so harsh they could alter the course of your life forever. Yet every single day people …
