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Over 900 Use Local SoberRide® Program on New Year’s
Over 900 Use Local SoberRide® Program on New Year's DC AREA'S DUI PREVENTION EFFORT REMOVES POTENTIAL DRUNK DRIVERS FROM AREA ROADWAYS EVERY 23-SECONDS ON NYE Washington, D.C., Jan. 9 – Over 900 (907) persons in the Washington-metropolitan area used the free safe ride service, SoberRide®, this New Year’s (from 10:00 pm on December 31, 2022 through 4:00 am on January 1, 2023) as opposed to possibly driving home drunk. “For its hours of operation this New Year’s alone, this level of ridership translates into SoberRide® removing a potential drunk driver [...]
Greater Washington Law Enforcement Lauded For Fight Against Drunk Driving
Greater Washington Law Enforcement Lauded For Fight Against Drunk Driving 25th ANNIVERSARY EVENT HONORS LOCAL POLICE IN FIGHT AGAINST DUI Washington, DC, December 16 -- Sixteen (16) 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 25th-anniversary “Law Enforcement Awards of Excellence for Impaired Driving Prevention.” Bestowed this morning at a regional ceremony held in McLean, Virginia, the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) presented its 2022 Law Enforcement Awards to: Officer Michael Raines [...]
Free Holiday Lyft Rides Offered Throughout Greater Washington to Prevent Drunk Driving
Free Holiday Lyft Rides Offered Throughout Greater Washington to Prevent Drunk Driving NEARLY HALF OF U.S. HIGHWAY DEATHS DURING CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S INVOLVE DRUNK DRIVERS Washington DC, December 12 -- Preparing to combat that time of year when, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly half of all U.S. traffic deaths involve drunk drivers (39%, Christmas; 49%, New Year’s Day – NHTSA, 2020), a local nonprofit organization announced today that free safe rides will be offered to would-be drunk drivers throughout the Washington-metropolitan area during the winter [...]
Alcohol and Drug-Related Traffic Fatalities Decrease in Metropolitan Washington
Alcohol and Drug-Related Traffic Fatalities Decrease in Metropolitan-Washington New data also shows increase in alcohol-related injuries, crashes and arrests Washington, D.C. (December 6, 2022) – The number of alcohol and drug-related traffic fatalities decreased by 10-percent between 2020 and 2021 in the metropolitan Washington area, according to the 30th-annual "How Safe Are Our Roads?" report prepared by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) for the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP). Meanwhile, the number of alcohol-related injuries, crashes, and arrests all increased during the same period. The ten-percent decrease in [...]
Nearly 1,000 Use Local SoberRide® Program on Halloween
Nearly 1,000 Use Local SoberRide® Program on Halloween DC AREA’S 31-YEAR-OLD DUI PREVENTION EFFORT POSTS SECOND HIGHEST RIDERSHIP LEVEL EVER FOR HALLOWEEN LAST WEEKEND Washington, D.C., November 4 – Nearly 1,000 (943) persons in the Washington-metropolitan area used the free safe ride service, SoberRide®, this Halloween (October 29 – 30, 2022) as opposed to possibly driving home drunk. “For its hours of operation this Halloween weekend, this level of ridership translates into SoberRide removing more than one potential drunk driver from Greater Washington’s roadways every 45-seconds last weekend,” said Kurt [...]
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