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Nearly 600 Use Local SoberRide® Program on St. Patrick's Day DC AREA’S DUI PREVENTION EFFORT REMOVES POTENTIAL DRUNK DRIVER FROM AREA ROADWAYS NEARLY EVERY 73-SECONDS Tysons VA, March 23 – Nearly 600 (591) persons in the Washington-metropolitan area used the free safe ride service, SoberRide®, on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) as opposed to possibly driving home drunk. “For its hours of operation on St. Patrick’s Day, this level of ridership translates into SoberRide removing a potential drunk driver from Greater Washington’s roadways nearly every 73-seconds,” said WRAP President Kurt [...]

Free St. Patrick's Day Lyft Rides Throughout Greater Washington to Prevent Drunk Driving OVER ONE-THIRD OF U.S. TRAFFIC DEATHS ONPATRICK’S DAY INVOLVE DRUNK DRIVERS Tysons, VA, Mar. 2 — Preparing to combat that time of the year when, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration figures, more than one-third (34%) 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 on St. Patrick’s Day. Offered by the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol [...]

Over 1,200 Use Local SoberRide® Program during the Super Bowl Tysons VA, February 12 – Over 1,200 (1,228) persons in the Washington-metropolitan area used the free safe ride service, SoberRide® during last weekend’s Super Bowl game as opposed to possibly driving home drunk. “For its hours of operation during the Super Bowl, this level of ridership translates into SoberRide removing a potential drunk driver from Greater Washington’s roadways nearly every 23-seconds,” said Kurt Erickson, President of the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP), the organization conducting the region’s SoberRide® effort. [...]

Free Super Bowl Sunday Lyft Rides Offered Throughout Greater Washington to Prevent Drunk Driving ONE-THIRD OF U.S. TRAFFIC DEATHS DURING SUPER BOWL INVOLVE DRUNK DRIVERS Tysons, VA January 27 – Preparing to combat that time of the year when, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality and Injury Reporting System Tool (FIRST), one-third (33%, 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 next month’s Super Bowl [...]

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 [...]