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...NHTSA Early Estimates show an 18.4% increase in Traffic fatalities for the first half of 2021. With an estimated 20,160 people killed, this is the largest increase in the first half of a year since 2006. See the link to the report. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813199 MADD Survey...
Sergeant Don Egdorf Don is a Houston Texas police officer who specializes in drunk driving enforcement. He is a Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) and Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) instructor who travels across the country to speak about fatal crash cases, and investigative techniques he...
Last month, MADD featured Ohio mechanic and businessman Daniel Toops. Click here to read Toops’ story. On Nov. 28, 2013, Toops died in a drunk driving crash. Four other people were in the vehicle that night. Rick Thompson, a friend of Daniel’s, was one of...
Submitted by April Ricci of MADD Rhode Island. Who was Tommy? Let me start this by being honest with you. I do not usually do something like this. Talking or writing about this is not my comfort zone. But I thought it was an important...
Two of the most celebrated dates in December – Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve – are also among the most dangerous. In 2018, drunk driving crashes claimed 108 lives in those two days alone, accounting for nearly half of total traffic deaths. That is...
The holidays can feel anything but joyous for those coping with loss. When everyone else appears happy and cheerful, it’s also easy to feel alone. But you are not the only one who feels this way. There is no road map for getting through the...