Tag: impaired driving
Removing the Guesswork: NTSB Recommends Setting Clear Goals to Reduce Drunk Driving
In May the National Transportation Safety Board released 19 recommendations to eliminate impaired driving. This post is the last...
New Website Gives DWI Victims the Chance to Share Their Story—Will it Make a Difference?
Jacqui Saburido is one of the most well-known drunk driving victims in the country. In September of 1999,...
Disconnecting "Drunk" from "Driving": NTSB Advises Increased Use of In-Vehicle Alcohol Testing Technology
In May the National Transportation Safety Board released 19 recommendations to eliminate impaired driving. This post is the...
Top 12 of 2012: 27 States See Drop in Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities
Just in time to wrap up a year full of good news in the fight against Impaired Driving,...
Top 12 of 2012: NHTSA Continues Transdermal Alcohol Monitoring Research
In October the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a study on Transdermal Alcohol Monitoring. The report,...
Infographic: America’s Holiday Alcohol Binge
Binge drinking spikes around the holidays. Check out this infographic from Everyday Health.
Drunk Driving Deaths Fall as DWI Courts Surpass 600 Nationally
Courts Tout Success Stories During Impaired Driving Prevention Month in December As we prepare to ring in the...
Top 12 of 2012: North Carolina’s Laura’s Law Represents Paradigm Shift in State DUI Laws
In July of 2010, Laura Fortenbury, a 17-year-old Gaston County, North Carolina, teenager was killed in a head-on...
Top 12 of 2012: CDC Report on Binge Drinking, Relationship to Impaired Driving
As part of Impaired Driving Prevention Month, Sobering Up is taking a look back at the year’s Top...
NTSB’s 2013 Most Wanted List Includes Call for Technologies to Address Impaired Driving
Today the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the independent federal agency charged by Congress with investigating all transportation...