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MADD Applauds Nebraska Legislature for Approving Lifesaving Drunk Driving Measure

 Law Will Expand Use of Alcohol Ignition Interlocks for All Convicted Drunk Drivers

MADD Nebraska: We Have the Tools to Eliminate Drunk Driving – Let’s Use Them

 I read with great concern the March 21, 2008 opinion in the Journal Star written by the managing director of the American Beverage Institute (ABI) regarding lifesaving alcohol ignition interlocks.

MADD Challenges Lawmakers to Pass Critical Anti-Drunk Driving Legislation

 MADD Calls for Senate Judiciary Committee to Send LB 736 to Vote

Ignition Interlocks Eliminate Drinking and Driving
  • 12,726 arrests for DUI in Nebraska during 2006.
  • 1 in 4 Nebraska road fatalities involve drunk drivers. 26% of Nebraska’s highway fatalities in 2006 involved a drunk driver.
Senator Fulton To Hold Interlock Ignition Press Conference Friday

State Senator Tony Fulton will hold a joint press conference together with First Lady Sally Ganem, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and other officials on Friday, January 25th at 9:30 a.m. at the Lancaster  County Sheriff’s Office, 575 South 10th Street in Lincoln.

Interlock Ignition Device Demonstration - Friday, January 25th, 2008

People with previous drunk driving convictions make up approximately one-third of the drunk driving problem in Nebraska. The main reason people continue to drive drunk today—despite 27 years of intense public education and law enforcement’s best efforts—is because they can.

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