MEDIA ADVISORY: Tennessee to Remember Victims of Impaired Driving

NASHVILLE – Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely and Governor’s Highway Safety Office Director Kendell Poole will join state and local law enforcement officials and victims of impaired driving on Wednesday, December 3 at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel to remember the 390 people killed in impaired driving incidents in Tennessee in 2007. The event will mark the beginning of National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month in Tennessee. In 2007, 390 Tennesseans and 12,998 people nationwide died in alcohol-related crashes involving a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or higher. The Governor’s Highway Safety Office and law enforcement officials have this holiday message: Whether you’ve had way too many or just one too many, it’s not worth the risk of killing yourself or someone else: Booze It and Lose It.

 

 

Gerald Nicely, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Transportation

Kendell Poole, Director of Governor’s Highway Safety Office

Mike Walker, Colonel of Tennessee Highway Patrol

Sterling Owen IV, Chief of Police, Knoxville Police Department

Jeff Holt, Dyer County Sheriff’s Department

Brad Bulla, Family member of DUI Victim

Tennessee Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police

 

 

The state of Tennessee will remember its 390 victims of impaired driving in honor of National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month.

 

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

12:00 p.m. (CST)

 

Millennium Maxwell House Hotel

Ballroom West

2025 Metro Center Boulevard, Nashville

 

 

Since 1981, each U.S. President has demonstrated his commitment to preventing impaired driving by proclaiming December National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month.

 

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