Tennessee to Remember Victims of Impaired Driving

NASHVILLE – Tennessee Governor’s Highway Safety Office Director Kendell Poole will join state and local law enforcement officials and victims of impaired driving on Thursday, December 3 at 1:30 p.m. CST in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) lobby to remember 327 people killed in impaired driving crashes in Tennessee in 2008. The event will mark the beginning of National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month in Tennessee. Alcohol-related crashes involving a BAC of .08 or higher ended the lives of 327 Tennesseans and 11,773 people nationwide in 2008. The Governor’s Highway Safety Office and law enforcement officials have this holiday message: 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 of Governor’s Highway Safety Office
                      Mike Walker, Colonel of Tennessee Highway Patrol
                      Gill Kendrick, Police Chief of Jackson and President of Tennessee Association 
                            of Chiefs of Police
                      Daron Hall, Sheriff of Davidson County
                      Brad Bulla, Family member of DUI Victim

 

WHAT:           The state of Tennessee will remember 327 victims of impaired driving in honor of National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month.

WHEN:          Thursday, December 3, 2009

 

WHERE:        Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC)

                        Lobby

 

            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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