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Drunken Driving

Monday, December 31, 2012

How To Report a Drunken Driver New Year’s Eve

Do your part to keep local roadways safe New Year’s Eve. Don’t drink and drive. And if you see a drunken or impaired driver on the road? Use these tips for contacting the Florida Highway Patrol.

  Troopers and deputies will be out in force looking for impaired drivers New Year's Eve, but they can't do it alone.  Sgt. Steve Gaskins, with the Florida Highway Patrol, said motorists can do their part to keep the roadways safe by calling *FHP on their cell phones to report sightings of impaired motorists. To report a drunken or impaired driver: Gaskins said it is a given that New Year's Eve is a "party type holiday." "We want to remind people that even during your celebrations you have to make plans ahead of time," he said. "We don’t want to mix alcohol and motor vehicles.” Toward that end, revelers should make their plans early. “Plan for a designated driver, party at home or plan to party at places where you don’t have to drive home…

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Buzzed for the Holidays? Here's What Drunk Driving Could Cost You

"Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving" comes the word from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Ad Council. Aside from the risk to life and limb, here's what it could cost you in fines, legal fees and increased insurance rates.

  They get it, people like to celebrate and often that means they like to drink, and just about everyone knows, or should know, that drunken driving can cost lives. But what about buzzed drinking? Comes the word from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Ad Council: Don't do it. Their "Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving" campaign aims to remind motorists that "a buzzed driving crash can happen to anyone, anywhere." The cost to your bank account? Around $10,000 in fines, legal fees and inceased insurance rates, notes the NHTSA, which pales in comparison to the devasting loss of life and limb from drunken driving crashes, which in 2010 alone cost more than 10,000 lives. "So, during this holiday season, amid all the …

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