MADD National President Alex Otte
MADD News:
ALBUQUERQUE — Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) volunteers and workers will workforce up with legislation enforcement patrols throughout the nation Saturday, Aug. 27 for the fourth nationwide “Saturation Saturday”.
The digital and in-person occasions spotlight impaired driving prevention efforts by legislation enforcement in the course of the annual National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” marketing campaign, which launched Aug. 17 and continues by way of Labor Day.
NHTSA’s “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” marketing campaign, lengthy supported by MADD, helps fund elevated impaired driving enforcement, sobriety checkpoints and anti-drunk driving promoting throughout one of many busiest journey durations of the 12 months. According to latest NHTSA estimates for 2021, greater than 12,000 folks had been killed in drunk driving crashes – the worst 12 months since 2007.
“Hazardous driving behaviors have increased over the past two years amounting to more alcohol-related deaths and injuries on our roads,” MADD National President Alex Otte mentioned. “As we head into one of the busiest weeks on the road and the long Labor Day weekend, MADD joins our law enforcement partners in urging everyone to plan ahead before the first drink. Designate an unimpaired driver, utilize rideshare or call a taxi. There is never an excuse to drive drunk.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sobriety checkpoints scale back drunk driving deaths by 20 p.c. Saturation Saturday occasions will embrace checkpoints, elevated DUI patrols (known as Saturation Patrols) and different enforcement efforts aimed toward stopping impaired driving and stopping those that make the mistaken selection. MADD workers and volunteers in New Mexico will take part in legislation enforcement roll calls, checkpoints and different help actions to bolster the lifesaving significance of those visitors security enforcement initiatives.
“We know that at the end of summertime, people go to parties and celebrate with their loved ones. Therefore, it is critical for them to have a plan, and that plan should be to designate a non-drinking driver to get them home safely,” mentioned Bert Parnall, MADD New Mexico advisory board member. “The message of high visibility law enforcement traffic initiatives like Saturation Saturday is to not only stop drunk drivers, but also to publicize to would-be drunk drivers that if they choose to drive, they will be caught.”
Support for equitable and simply high-visibility visitors security enforcement is without doubt one of the key parts of MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving, launched in 2006. MADD advocates for funding for NHTSA’s Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over occasions, which happen yearly in August and December, and Click It or Ticket in May. The different parts of MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving embrace passing legal guidelines to require ignition interlocks for all drunk driving offenders, help for superior impaired driving prevention know-how in all new automobiles and taking private duty through the use of rideshare, public transportation, taxi or designating a non-drinking good friend or member of the family each time plans embrace alcohol.
Participating Law Enforcement businesses for New Mexico Saturation Saturday 2022 embrace: Albuquerque Police Department, New Mexico State Police, Lea County Sherriff’s Office, Pueblo of Pojoaque Police Department, Deming Police Department, Taos County Sheriff’s Office, Roswell Police Department, Bosque Farms Police Department, Santa Rosa Police Department, Hagerman Police Department, Rio Rancho Police Department, Cibola County Sheriff’s Office, Milan Police Department and Ramah Navajo Police Department.
Agencies listed might be internet hosting both a Sobriety Checkpoint, or a Saturation Patrol, Saturday, Aug. 27.
To comply with occasions all through the day, comply with MADD on Twitter at @maddonline or on Facebook at @MADD.Official.
About Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Founded in 1980 by a mom whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to finish drunk driving, assist combat drugged driving, help the victims of those violent crimes and stop underage ingesting. MADD has helped to save lots of greater than 400,000 lives, scale back drunk driving deaths by greater than 50 p.c and promote designating a non-drinking driver. MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving® requires legislation enforcement help, ignition interlocks for all offenders and superior car know-how. MADD has offered supportive providers to almost a million drunk and drugged driving victims and survivors at no cost by way of native sufferer advocates and the 24-Hour Victim Help Line 1.877.MADD.HELP. Visit www.madd.org or name 1.877.ASK.MADD.