From: "nigel allen" <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: drunk driving
Reply-To: "nigel allen" <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: talk
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:41:23 EST

Here is a press release about a campaign against drunk driving.

 Nationwide Campaign to Take Aim at Curbing Drunk & Drugged Driving
During Hazardous Holiday Season
 To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
 Contact: Bill Bronrott, 301-652-6016

 News Advisory:


 SUBJECT:  U.S. Surgeon General, Transportation Secretary, Police
           to Join Bereaved Families to Unveil Longest "Red Ribbon of
           Memories" Honoring Victims

           States to be Challenged to Enact New 3-Point Plan to
           Combat Impaired Driving, Underage Drinking

           Police Chiefs to Announce Nationwide Holiday Project to
           Promote Sober Driving, Safety Belt Use and Safe Speeds

           Paralyzed Drunk Driver to Plead for "None for the Road"

 WHAT:     News Conference & Victims Memorial Unveiling

 WHEN:     Thursday, Dec. 17
           10:30 a.m.

 WHERE:    The Great Hall, Lobby Level, Hubert H. Humphrey Bldg.
           U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
           200 Independence Avenue, S.W.,
           Washington, D.C.

 WHO: * Gavin Miller (Monroe, La.) who is permanently paralyzed and
        wheelchair-bound as a result of driving drunk when he was 17
        years old.

      * Pat Eggleston (Richmond, Va.), whose son, Ross, a
        military officer, and his friend, Mark Delashaw, were
        killed on New Year's Eve 1990 in Alabama by an impaired
        driver under the legal drinking age.  Ross's fiance
        had just bought his wedding ring that day.  (Mark Delashaw's
        sister, Alice Rubin of Alexandria, Va., also will attend.)

      * Vic Kennedy (Gaithersburg, Md.), a Montgomery County police
        officer, whose brother, Jay, was killed by a drunk
        driver during the December holiday season in 1981 in
        Wheaton, Md.

      * Kim Schaffel (Bel Air, Md.) was severely injured by an
        impaired driver in Chicago on Christmas Eve 1977.

      * U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello

      * Andrew Card, U.S. Secretary of Transportation

      * Maury Hannigan, Executive Board Member, International
        Association of Chiefs of Police (Commissioner, California
        Highway Patrol)

      * Milo Kirk, National President, Mothers Against Drunk
        Driving (Dallas)

      * Terrance Schiavone, President, National Commission Against
        Drunk Driving

 WHY:
   Impaired driving is the most frequently committed violent
crime in the nation, the cause of nearly 20,000 deaths and more
than 350,000 serious injuries last year alone.  The problem typically
worsens during the December holiday season.  The news conference
will announce several coordinated efforts to confront the problem:
   * A nationwide public information and enforcement campaign has been
organized for the first "National Drunk and Drugged Driving
Prevention Month" to encourage citizens to 'Take a Stand' to
prevent impaired driving and to remind holiday party hosts and
party-goers that "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk."
   * The longest ever red ribbon, symbolizing the importance of sober
driving, will be unveiled and displayed.  Over 1,500 personalized
red ribbons prepared by friends and family members of impaired
driving victims across the nation will be officially tied together
into a 3,000 foot-long "Red Ribbon of Memories."
   * The International Association of Chiefs of Police will announce
plans for the increased enforcement of impaired driving, safety
belt and speed limit laws during the holidays, including the
"National Holiday Lifesaver Weekend" slated for Friday, Dec. 18
through Sunday, Dec. 20.
   * Each state will be called on to enact a new three-point anti-
impaired driving legislative package to provide immediate license
revocation, lower the legal blood-alcohol limit to 0.08 percent,
and enact "zero tolerance" laws for drivers under the drinking
age of 21.  A state-by-state breakout list will indicate which
states have passed these three key measures.
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   B-roll will be available containing video footage of new holiday
season public service spots; impaired driving crash scenes; people
drinking in bars; police conducting sobriety checkpoints, administering
roadside sobriety tests and arresting impaired drivers.

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