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Local SoberRide® Program Reaches “100,000 Served” Milestone NEARLY 1,800 USE DC AREA’S DUI PREVENTION PROGRAM OVER WINTER HOLIDAYS Tysons, VA, Jan. 6 – Greater Washington’s drunk driving prevention program, SoberRide®, reached a milestone over the New Year’s holiday – reaching the over “100,000 served” mark. The local free safe ride service, which started in 1991 and is conducted by the three-person staffed, nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP), has now provided 101,287 free safe rides home to would-be drunk drivers in the Washington-metropolitan area as 1,446 persons used the program [...]

Metropolitan Washington Experiences Decrease in Impaired Driving Fatalities However, crashes and injuries due to impaired driving increased  Washington, DC (December 22 2025) - The How Safe Are Our Roads? Report, prepared for the Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), reveals that alcohol and drug-impaired traffic fatalities in the region decreased 26 percent between 2023 and 2024.   While these fatalities fell from 100 to 74—representing 23.2 percent of the 319 total regional traffic deaths—the report notes that impaired-related injuries and crashes both saw increases. Specifically, injuries rose nearly four percent to 1,649, while crashes [...]

Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces Start of Enhanced Holiday DUI Enforcement Period STATEWIDE “DRIVE SOBER OR GET PULLED OVER” CAMPAIGN FEATURES INCREASED PATROLS AND SOBRIETY CHECKPOINTS RICHMOND, VA – Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced enhanced holiday DUI enforcement as part of Virginia’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, reminding Virginians to plan for a safe ride home if their holiday plans include alcohol and citing stepped-up efforts by law enforcement throughout the Commonwealth to identify and apprehend drunk drivers. “This holiday season, Virginians have the opportunity to make a responsible choice that can [...]

Free Holiday Lyft Rides Offered Throughout Greater Washington to Prevent Drunk Driving OVER A THIRD OF U.S. TRAFFIC DEATHS DURING CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S INVOLVE DRUNK DRIVERS Tysons, VA December 15 – Preparing to combat that time of year when according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, well over a third (37%: Christmas; 34% New Year’s Day – NHTSA 2023) of U.S. traffic deaths involve drunk drivers, a local nonprofit organization announced today that free safe rides will be offered to would-be drunk drivers throughout the Washington-metropolitan area during [...]

Greater Washington Law Enforcement Lauded for Fight Against Drunk Driving 28th ANNIVERSARY EVENT HONORS LOCAL POLICE IN FIGHT AGAINST DUI Tysons, VA, December 12 -- Seventeen (17) Washington-metropolitan area police officers were cited today for their “outstanding commitment in the fight against drunk driving in Greater Washington” and presented with the area’s 28th-anniversary “Law Enforcement Awards of Excellence for Impaired Driving Prevention.” Bestowed this morning at a regional ceremony held in Chevy Chase, Maryland, the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) presented its 2025 Law Enforcement Awards to: Alexandria Police [...]

A Record-Shattering Over 4,000 Persons Use Local SoberRide® Program Halloween Weekend DC AREA’S DUI PREVENTION INITIATIVE NEARS “100,000 SERVED” MILESTONE Tysons, VA, October 6 – A record-shattering 4,056 persons in the Washington-metropolitan area used the free safe ride service, SoberRide®, Halloween weekend as opposed to possibly driving home drunk. Last weekend’s ridership was the most ever for a single SoberRide® campaign in the program’s 34-year history. In as much, the local drunk driving prevention initiative -- which started in 1991 and is conducted by the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program [...]