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The plan is organized according to the recommendations of NHTSA Uniform Guidelines for State Highway Safety Programs (No. 8, November 2006), and thus has the major topics of Alabama’s Impaired Driving (ID) Challenge Program Management Prevention Criminal Justice Approaches Communication Program Alcohol and other Drugs Misuse, Screen, Assessment, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Program Evaluation and Data […]
NHTSA’s SaferRide app will help drunk drivers off our roads by allowing users to call a taxi or a friend and by identifying their locations so they can be picked up. For Android devices, from the Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nhtsa.SaferRide For Apple devices, from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/saferride/id950774008?mt=8
The GHSA has released a study on drug-impaired driving and possible ways law-enforcement and legislature can assist with reducing drug-impaired driving.
Driving while on drugs was associated with more deaths in 2015 than driving with alcohol in one’s system, a new report found. Still, some safety experts caution that drunken driving remains a bigger problem and say that “drugged driving,” as the report refers to it, needs more research. Positive drug tests were more common than […]
Law Enforcement Training Grants Fill Critical Gap WASHINGTON, D.C.—With more states legalizing marijuana and record numbers of people dying from drug overdoses, concerns about drug-impaired driving are escalating. While we have made progress in combatting drunk driving in recent decades, drug use by drivers continues to rise. In fact, in 2015 (the most recent national […]
The DoT has been tasked with coming up with a marijuana intoxication limit. Last month, President Obama signed the $305 billion Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act into law, providing funding and new regulations for the country’s aging highways. This law has special significance for medical and recreational pot users, as it requires the government to […]
The holidays are known for being merry and bright, but they’re also known for being the deadliest season when it comes to drunk driving. Every holiday season, lives are lost due to drunk drivers.
Why would you drunk drive? You have to get somewhere? Okay, call a cab. Download the Uber app. Get a hold of a friend. Take a bus. Walk. Other options exist, non of which kill 27 people a day. Drunk driving is the last thing you should do. Saying you’re a good drunk driver is […]
In 2015, the use of seat belts in passenger vehicles saved an estimated 13,941 lives of occupants 5 and older, and an estimated 2,573 lives of occupants 13 and older were saved by frontal air bags. An estimated 266 child occupants 4 and younger were saved by the use of child restraints, and 1,772 lives […]
Law enforcement in every state and most cities are cracking down on drunk driving with the launch of The “Drive Sober or get Pulled Over” campaign. State Troopers will be out in force from now until Labor Day, September 5, and will have a zero tolerance for drunk driving. In that time period drivers can […]
