Mothers Against Drunk
Driving
By Josh Riverside
Tip!
Drinking and driving is not the same as drunk driving or the other
terms mentioned earlier. Drinking and driving means driving a vehicle
after consuming an alcoholic beverage, or driving while consuming one.
Her 13-year-old daughter's tragic death in a
drunk driving accident in 1980 prompted Candy Lightner to form
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, a non-profit organization in
the United States and other countries.
The organization began to grow rapidly
in 1983 when a film on Lightner was aired on television, making MADD
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In 1990, MADD launched its ""20 by 2000""
plan to reduce by 20% the proportion of traffic fatalities that are
alcohol-related by 2000. In fact, this came three years early in 1997.
In 1991, MADD released its first Rating the States report in which it
graded the states in their progress again drunk driving. Since then,
Rating the States has been released four times. MADD's National Board of
Directors in 1999 unanimously voted to change the organization's mission
statement and include the prevention of underage drinking, whether or
not the drinking was associated with driving.
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Since the establishment of the organization, it has played a key role
in getting thousands of anti-drunk driving laws passed. It also helped
popularize the use of ''designated drivers.
Since the establishment of the
organization, it has played a key role in getting thousands of
anti-drunk driving laws passed. It also helped popularize the use of
""designated drivers.""
In recent times, MADD lobbied hard to
reduce the legal limit for blood alcohol from BAC .10 to BAC .08.
Eventually in 2000, this standard was passed by Congress, and by 2005,
every state had an illegal .08 BAC limit.
MADD has successfully advocated, and
still advocates, laws for more stringent punishment of offenders of laws
against driving under the influence, as well as laws against drinking
and driving.
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