From within his Milton, Florida prison cell, Chad Mattson writes about drunk driving prevention. At about 5 years into a 15 year sentence for DUI Manslaughter, Chad has time to reflect on how a terrible choice took an innocent person’s life and forever changed his own. His writings reflect his commitment to prevent others from making Read the full article…
This news story about a child killed by an illegal immigrant drunk driver would be just another in the endless string of DUI fatality stories. But this one has people angry because it comes at the same time President Obama has stated his intention to make drunk driving convictions a non-deportable offense. While this is Read the full article…
The Google Car looks so friendly, doesn’t it? I’ve written here a couple of times about the future of drunk driving prevention and the technology and laws that will be required to eliminate drunk driving entirely. I’ve stated we’ve got several decades to go before we see nothing but drunk-proof cars on the roads. And Read the full article…
The designated driver must NEVER be the Least Drunk of the bunch! Illustrating this basic point is Seattle Seahawk, Spencer Ware who was arrested for drunk driving with a couple of friends in the car. Spencer says he wasn’t as drunk as his friends and that’s why he was driving on what sounds like a night Read the full article…
First Florida, then New York, and Now Los Angeles – is there a way we can get David Cassidy put on a no-fly list? Everywhere this serial drunk driver goes, he endangers the public and gets arrested. David has stood up to his demons before and unfortunately, he keeps falling back down. Some serial drunk Read the full article…
Cars that can drive themselves appear to be on the horizon. How will this impact drunk driving? If the car is the driver, will we still be held unaccountable for anything that happens while we are passengers? When we wrote about the future of drunk driving prevention, we intentionally left autonomous vehicles out of the Read the full article…
Over the last 6 months, DrinkingAndDriving.Org has been partnering with BACtrack to do breathalyzer giveaways at public events. Since recent headlines make what we are doing together all the more timely, I wanted to talk about it here. Do you know .05 from .08? I mean when you’re drinking, can you tell the difference? The NTSB Read the full article…
When the NTSB published their recommendation to lower the legal limit for driving from .08 BAC to.05, it was one of several recommendations aimed at all 50 states in their Safety Report entitled, “Reaching Zero: Actions to Eliminate Alcohol-Impaired Driving.” This document is an excellent resource for anyone truly interested in where we have been Read the full article…
Farrah Abraham has written two blog postings to describe the events of her St. Patrick’s Day drunk driving arrest. In doing so, she has provided a powerful educational tool for those of us who want to prevent drunk driving! Some of it just needs to be interpreted in the proper light. The two original postings Read the full article…
Last week, I received an email from K. expressing concern that DrinkingAndDriving.Org partners with Mr. Checkpoint. Mr. Checkpoint is a service that provides free text alerts for DUI checkpoints. Here is K.’s email … =========== From: k. Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:06 AM To: dado@drinkinganddriving.org Subject: website question Found your website recently and thought it Read the full article…