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Authorities ramp up efforts to keep drunk drivers off the roads
Texas authorities ramp up efforts to curb drunk driving
The Texas Division of Transportation has launched one other marketing campaign in an effort to maintain Texans from consuming and getting behind the wheel.
AUSTIN, Texas – When you’re consuming on New 12 months’s weekend, ensure you’re not getting behind the wheel. Authorities are ramping up efforts to maintain drunk drivers off the roads.
The Texas Division of Transportation says 23 % of crashes within the state final vacation season concerned drunk driving. These crashes killed 98 folks and injured 236.
Erin Crawford-Bowers misplaced each of her dad and mom in 1985 when she was six months previous after their automotive was hit by a drunk driver. Her mom threw herself in entrance of Erin’s automotive seat, saving her.
“She actually sacrificed her personal life in order that I may reside,” Crawford-Bowers mentioned.
She says that is the rationale she continues to advocate towards drunk driving.
TxDOT launches “Faces of Drunk Driving” marketing campaign
The marketing campaign seeks to remind Texans of the true folks whose lives are destroyed by impaired drivers, together with Erin Crawford-Bowers of New Braunfels, who grew up with out her dad and mom due to a drunk driver in 1985.
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TxDOT is selling their “Drive Sober, No Regrets” marketing campaign. When you do drink, use a chosen driver, rideshare, or public transportation, so somebody would not lose their family members.
“The day I bought married and simply wished my father to stroll me down the aisle, that did not occur. Or the day I had my infants, and also you simply need your mother by your aspect, and I did not get that in life,” Crawford-Bowers mentioned.
One driver, Richie Griffin, talks in regards to the penalties of driving below the affect, together with ten days in jail for him.
“Subsequent factor you recognize, I misplaced management of the automotive, and I crashed right into a home. From there you have bought the backlash as a result of it was on the information, and earlier than I may get again dwelling, my telephone’s blowing up, folks’s dad and mom, different folks, like, ‘how may you, so irresponsible,’ and also you go from considering, ‘I am this good man, and every thing’s figuring out for me,’ to hastily, ‘I am a felon,’ it is a $30,000 mistake and one thing I nonetheless take into consideration and need to cope with daily,” he mentioned.
The message is, it isn’t value ruining somebody’s life or your personal.
“Consider me. Consider what it is induced to my household, and ask your self, how are you going to reside with your self realizing that you simply killed a woman’s mom and her father?” Crawford-Bowers mentioned.