Tennessee to Remember Victims of Impaired Driving
Tuesday, December 07, 2010 | 08:22am
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office Director Kendell Poole will join state and local law enforcement officials on Wednesday, December 8 at the Bicentennial Mall State Map to remember 303 people killed in impaired driving crashes in Tennessee in 2009. The event will mark the beginning of National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month in Tennessee.
More than 2,000 crashes in Tennessee in 2009 involved a driver that tested positive for drugs. What’s more, alcohol-related crashes involving a driver with a blood alcohol content level of .08 or higher ended the lives of 303 Tennesseans and 10,839 people nationwide in 2009. The Governor’s Highway Safety Office and law enforcement across the state want to remind Tennesseans that driving impaired is never a good idea. If you drink this holiday, don’t drive. It’s not worth the risk of killing yourself or someone else: Booze It and Lose It.
WHO: Kendell Poole, Director, Governor’s Highway Safety Office
Colonel Tracy Trott, Tennessee Highway Patrol
Chief Joey Bishop, Columbia Police Dept. & Treasurer or TN Assoc. of Chiefs of Police
Lieutenant Kenneth Walburn, Metro-Nashville Police Department
Kim Ledford, Family Member of DUI Victim
WHAT: The state of Tennessee will remember 303 victims of impaired driving in honor of National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month.
WHEN: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
4:30 p.m. (CST)
WHERE: Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Map
600 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, Tennessee 37243
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: 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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