MADD looks forward to working with ourโฆ. Read the stories of real-life victims of impaired and drunk driving. We carry that mission forward, invigorated by the possibility that together, we can end impaired driving in our lifetime.
This requires collective change; sharing the responsibility of protecting one another from harm. MADD champions anti-drunk driving technology, leads prevention efforts across all communities in the U. To make impaired driving a thing of the past we must continue to change behaviors and fundamentally shift how future generations think about road safety.
Did you know that as early as , all new vehicles on the market will include anti-drunk driving technology? Once in place, this technology is expected to save more than 10, lives per year and prevent hundreds of thousands of injuries. MADD victims and survivors worked with a bipartisan group of Members of Congress, representatives of the auto industry, and the U. Department of Transportation on this advanced impaired driving prevention technology for 16 years before it came to fruition.
We provide vital services at no cost to impaired driving victims, survivors, and their loved ones through emotional support, guidance, and information about the criminal and civil justice process. These resources include:. We invite you to get connected in your area to help put an end to impaired driving for good.
Every day, 37 people are killed and 1, people are injured in preventable drunk driving crashes in the U. Kids who start drinking young are 7 times more likely to be in an alcohol-related crash according to underage drinking statistics. Anti-drunk driving technology, made possible through the HALT Act, is expected to save 10, lives per year. We also work to ensure consistent sentencing in the criminal justice system through our court monitoring program to deter offenders from getting behind the wheel impaired.
