Summary

This week (National Sobriety Checdkpoint Week July 1-7), Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), drunk driving victims and police agencies launch a nationwide sobriety checkpoint blitzIncreased use of checkpoints to prevent deaths and injuries over the July 4th holiday weekend The July 4th holiday was the deadliest road travel holiday in both 1994 and 1995 The National Safety Council predicts that 653 Americans are likelt to die on the nation's highways over the Independence Day Holiday periodmaking it possibly the deadliest road travel holiday weekend this year The Ameerican Automobile Association expects the heaviest road travel Fourth of July holiday in nearly a decade While alchohol related traffic deaths have been cut by 40 percent since MADD was founded in 1980, MADD will release new statistics that show that drunk driving rose in 1995 for the first time in a decade Drunk Driving is the most frequently committed violent crime in the United States and sobriety checkpoints are one of the most effective weapons in the war on drunk driving The National Sobriety Checkpoint Week campaign will emphasize the effectiveness of checkpoints and will recommend safety precautions motorists should take to prevent impaired driving

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 39483
Story Slug National Sobriety Checkpoint Week VNR (07/02/1996)
Location Various
Format Pkg, Sots & B-Roll
Date 07/02/1996
Archive Time 44:08
TRT 10:00
Supers Chicago, Illinois Kansas City, MO Baltimore, MD Columbus, OH
Video Description BAD SEGMENTS IN VIDEO National kickoff news conference, sots, crash victims, crash scene, sots, sobriety checkpoints, roadside sobriety tests, drunk driving crash scenes, new NWCW TV PSA
Description This week (National Sobriety Checdkpoint Week July 1-7), Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), drunk driving victims and police agencies launch a nationwide sobriety checkpoint blitzIncreased use of checkpoints to prevent deaths and injuries over the July 4th holiday weekend The July 4th holiday was the deadliest road travel holiday in both 1994 and 1995 The National Safety Council predicts that 653 Americans are likelt to die on the nation's highways over the Independence Day Holiday periodmaking it possibly the deadliest road travel holiday weekend this year The Ameerican Automobile Association expects the heaviest road travel Fourth of July holiday in nearly a decade While alchohol related traffic deaths have been cut by 40 percent since MADD was founded in 1980, MADD will release new statistics that show that drunk driving rose in 1995 for the first time in a decade Drunk Driving is the most frequently committed violent crime in the United States and sobriety checkpoints are one of the most effective weapons in the war on drunk driving The National Sobriety Checkpoint Week campaign will emphasize the effectiveness of checkpoints and will recommend safety precautions motorists should take to prevent impaired driving
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