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Labor Day Warning

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Created 09/02/2011 - 2:58pm
Submitted by Research and In... on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 2:58pm
Type of Article: 
News (legacy)
Main webpage: 
Transportation Library [1]
Brief Description: 
drunk driving

New nationwide ad campaign, annual crackdown under way as research shows pre-dawn drunk driving crashes claim a life every 23 minutes [2]

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today marked its annual enforcement crackdown and the launch of a nationwide, multi-year advertising campaign aimed at getting drunk drivers off the road: “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.” With new research showing fatal crashes involving drunk drivers occur most frequently between the hours of midnight and 3AM—when drunk driving crashes claim a life every 23 minutes—the efforts are particularly focused on nighttime enforcement.
Source URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/news-legacy/2011/september/labor-day-warning

Links:
[1] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/transportation-library
[2] http://www.dot.gov/affairs/2011/nhtsa1511.html
[3] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/drunk-driving