NEWS

LOCAL DRUNK DRIVING DEATHS, HOWEVER, ON THE RISE Washington, D.C., Jan. 23 – Alcohol-related crashes, injuries and drunk driving arrests all decreased in the Washington-metropolitan area in 2017. During this same period, however, alcohol-impaired traffic fatalities increased according to a report released today by the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP). In 2017, Greater Washington recorded 86 alcohol and or drug-impaired traffic fatalities – a 46-percent increase in such deaths from the previous year. Those findings are contained in WRAP’s 26th-annual “How Safe are Our Roads? Annual Data Report on [...]

NEARLY HALF OF ALL U.S. TRAFFIC DEATHS ON GAME DAY INVOLVE DRUNK DRIVERS  Falls Church, VA, Jan. 22– While the teams, site and time have been finalized, a local anti-drunk driving organization is urging the public to also develop a game plan to prevent drunk driving during this year’s “Super Bowl Sunday.” During Super Bowl Sunday 2017, nearly half (48%) of all U.S. traffic fatalities involved alcohol-impaired drivers according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (see NHTSA chart below). “With nearly half of all U.S. traffic deaths being caused [...]

Greater Washington Anti-DUI Program's Ridership More Than Triples Using Ridesharing Platform Washington, D.C., Jan. 3 – A record over 1,500 (1,502) persons in the Washington-metropolitan area used the free safe ride service, SoberRide®, this New Year’s (from 8:00 pm on December 31, 2018 through 4:00 am on January 1, 2019) as opposed to possibly driving home drunk. “For its hours of operation this New Year’s, this level of ridership translates into SoberRide® removing a potential drunk driver from Greater Washington’s roadways every 19-seconds,” said Kurt Gregory Erickson, President of the [...]