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When People Who Should Know Better Don’t

When celebrities, professional athletes and other high profile people are arrested for drunk driving, it is easy to question their intelligence and ability to reason. We use the DrinkingAndDriving.Org Facebook Fan Page primarily to share the latest high profile DUI arrests like Jason Wahler, multiple Miami Dolphins, and others.

A compelling concept to realize about celebs [...]

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The Future of Drunk Driving Prevention

50 years from now, If the numbers of drunk driving incidents became low enough MADD would have to shift its most of its focus to what is already one of their core targets – teenage drinking.

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Tipping Off the Cops Revisited

In our Blog posting, “The Supreme Court Says No Fair Tipping Off the Cops” from October 24 last year, we were swayed by news articles we read online and compelled to speak up.  Since then, an important clarification has been issued in an article at PoliceMag.com entitled, “Beware of False Headlines“. 

If you have read our [...]

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New Drunk Driving Statistics Released

There is a lot of new data coming out regarding drunk driving.  The NHTSA has released new figures and some of the news is good – Fatalities from DUI accidents decreased last year.  Total deaths amounted to under 12,000 instead of 13,000.  Again, that’s good news.  But does it mean the number of drunk drivers [...]

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Supreme Court Says No Fair Tipping Off the Cops!

When you see an impaired driver swerving on the road, the right thing to do is to report it so that they are stopped before anything tragic happens.  That’s what most of us believe and indeed is what we at DrinkingAndDriving.Org encourage.  We even make fun of people who don’t report drunk drivers.

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BATmobile Rescues Sobriety Checkpoints!

 

Sobriety checkpoints have been around for decades now despite occasional controversy. Sometimes they are successful and sometimes they are not!

Successful sobriety checkpoints nab drunk drivers with as little impact to the rest of the traffic as possible and we [...]

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Stallworth out after serving 24 days for DUI Manslaughter

Stallworth could easily afford to change their lives (again, only in a good way this time). It sounds too much like money wins again.

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Is Playing “Follow The Drunk” an International Pastime?

I call it Playing Follow the Drunk and I can honestly say I find it a bit disturbing!

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MADD and Century Council Should Take Advice From Rodney King!

the sum of the parts adding up greater than the whole

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New! Drunk Driver Obstacle Course in Virginia

“Here’s my impression of a drunk walking down the sidewalk.”

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