Today, the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) released a report focusing on “high risk” drunk drivers. MADD has issued the following response: ALL drunk drivers are high risk. The alcohol industry funded the GHSA report to distract from that undeniable fact and it is damaging to Read More
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New NHTSA Data: Drunk Driving Killed 10,511 People in 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Drunk driving claimed the lives of 10,511 people in 2018, a 3.6% decrease after two straight years of nearly 11,000 alcohol-related traffic deaths, according to new data released today by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Drunk driving remains the leading Read More
Federal Legislation Has Potential to Eliminate Drunk Driving in America
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) today joined Senator Tom Udall, Senator Rick Scott and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell to announce the Reduce Impaired Driving for Everyone Act of 2019 (RIDE Act). The federal legislation calls for the Department of Transportation to issue a rulemaking Read More
Ignition Interlocks Have Stopped More Than 3 Million Drunk Driving Attempts in 12 Years
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) announced that in-car breathalyzers have stopped a driver who is drunk from starting his or her vehicle over 3 million times since 2006, when MADD launched the Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving and began advocating for Read More
Honoring the 67 Victims of the Deadliest Drunk Driving Crash in U.S. History
On May 14, 1988, a school bus carrying 67 people, nearly all of them children, was returning to Radcliff, Ky. from a church youth group field trip to an amusement park. While they were driving through Carroll County, Ky., a drunk driver driving on the Read More
MADD Elects Drunk & Drugged Driving Victim as New National President
IRVING, TX — Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) announces its new National President, Helen Witty, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Witty joined MADD in 2000 after her 16-year-old daughter, Helen Marie, was killed by a drunk and drugged driver while rollerblading on a designated bike path Read More
Joshua Jahn’s Fight Against Drunk Driving
MADD National President’s Thoughts on Child Endangerment
This time of year brings the beginning of the holidays and all the traditions that children love the most — Halloween and its sweet treats, families gathered around the table for a Thanksgiving feast and presents stacked neatly under a decorated tree. It’s a time Read More
ALERT: MADD pushes Rhode Island to protect its children
After working with Mothers Against Drunk Driving® and supporters, Rhode Island has enhanced its child endangerment law so that driving while impaired with a child passenger is now a felony on the second offense. It’s about time. In 2016, 1,233 children died in car crashes, Read More
July 4th Marks One of Nation’s Deadliest Holidays for Drunk Driving
CONTACT: Fatima Ali, 972-489-3713 DALLAS (June 26, 2018) — This Fourth of July holiday, Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) urges everyone to celebrate safely by planning ahead and designating a non-drinking driver if plans include alcohol. Backyard barbecues, fireworks displays and other festivities surrounding the Read More