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Why Drunk Driving Checkpoints Should Be Celebrated, Not Avoided

A Florida defense lawyer and libertarian has become a YouTube sensation by recommending that drivers pulled over during checkpoint stops to detect drunk drivers do not open their windows or speak to police officers. At last count, Warren Redlich’s video has more than two million views. Instead, he recommends that they display a sign, which he has made, indicating why they are politely refusing to cooperate.

In the United States, lawyers are free to give advice about avoiding arrests. But maybe it is time to remind ourselves that drunk driving is not a game. There are scientifically based public health reasons for why municipalities put up…

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 Why Drunk Driving Checkpoints Should Be Celebrated, Not Avoided

In the United States, lawyers are free to give advice about avoiding arrests. But maybe it is time to remind ourselves that drunk driving is not a game.

5 Facts About Marijuana and Driving High

Just like drunk driving, driving under the influence of drugs is a crime — even if your impairment happened due to prescription drugs.

Change the Conversation

It’s time to Change the Conversation. Learn more about the impaired driving problem and Speak Your Mind to prevent deaths and injuries on our roads. Share what you're doing and what works with friends and communities across Canada to help others.

Americans United Against Destructive Driving

AUADD is the first organization to offer replacement or alternative vehicles directly to victims of destructive driving crimes, throughout the country, free of charge...AUADD will always be focused on the undeserved part of highway safety organizations, victims.

BADD

To reduce the incidence of drunk driving and its consequences through promotion and awareness to the mainstream in malls, major events, annual tours and the media. To aggressively spread the message across the globe with distribution of patches, stickers etc bearing our powerful name and message.

MADD

To end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes, and prevent underage drinking.

OSAID

Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving is a registered Canadian charity working with secondary and high school level students in Ontario. Its topic is impaired driving. The OSAID program is peer to peer based - students talk to other students about the dangers of impaired driving.

RID

RID’s mission is to deter drunk driving, underage drinking and help the victims of drunk driving. Since our inception in 1978, RID has never accepted any funding from the alcohol industry.

Global Road Safety Partnership

The impairment of normal driver behaviour is regarded here as 'a reduced ability to perform adequately the various elements of the driving task'. The cause of driver impairment (or resulting dangerous and erratic behaviour) may be the result of a number of factors such as alcohol consumption, drug ingestion, injury, infirmity, fatigue, the natural ageing process; or a combination of these factors.

SADD

SADD envisions a world in which young people make positive decisions that advance their health and safety.

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