M.A.D.D.+Group



**What is M.A.D.D.?** M.A.D.D also knhown as "Mothers Against Drunk Driving" is an organization which is against drunk driving and lowering the drinking age to 18, but rather lower it to 12 years of age.

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**When was this organization created?** The National MADD organization began in California in the 1980s. In September of 1980, 20-year old Joe Tursi was driving near Philadelphia when a truck, operated by a drunk driver, crossed over the center line and plummeted into his windshield crushing him

Marie Tursi established MADD for Pennsylvania after the violent death of her son who was killed by a drunk driver. The man was convicted of homicide and charged with the only 4 years of probation and a $151 fine for his reckless behavior.
 * Why was M.A.D.D. created for Pennsylvania? **

"After the crash.....there's the impact." M.A.D.D. has victim support for those effected by either fatalities related to drunk driving but also for those who are severely injured....

(This is what happens when you drive drunk) So dont't drink and drive.


 * The** [|**National Highway Traffic Safety Administration**]**is releasing new data that shows that keeping the drinking age laws at 21 prevented an estimated 4,441 drunk driving deaths over the last five years.**
 * Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) headed a symposium on the issue. MADD says that “Turning our back on these laws would be a deadly mistake. Minimum drinking age laws are among the most effective measures ever used to reduce drunken driving deaths among America’s**
 * young people.”**

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//Drunk driving affects everyone....not just alcoholics or the bad kids but people who make poor decisions.//

In 2007, an estimated 12,998 people died in drunk driving related crashes—a decline of 3.7 percent from the 13,491 drunk driving related fatalities of 2006.1 On average someone is killed by a drunk driver every 40 minutes.2 In 2001, more than half a million people were injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was present — an average of one person injured almost every minute.3,4 About three in every ten Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related crash at some time in their lives. This information provided by M.A.D.D.
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Many people die each year by drunk drivers....how would you feel if you killed your own mother?...

“Drunk driving needlessly kills thousands of young people every year. That’s why I wrote a law to create a national drinking age of 21 and why we fight so hard to reduce drunk driving and save lives on our roads,” //**Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ)**// said. “This small minority of college administrators wants to undo years of success – that defies common sense. We need to do all we can to protect the national drinking age – a law that saves the lives of drivers, passengers and pedestrians across the country each year.”

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Thirty-two States had decreases in the number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in 2007, as com-pared to 2006. Twenty-five States and the District of Columbia had increases in the number of alcohol-impaired motor-cycle riders (operators)3. Alcohol-impaired motorcycle riders increased by 10 percent in 2007 – the only category of drivers to show an increase.







[|- Mothers Against Drunk Driving - Amethyst Initiative Underage Drinking Response]

Memo!!!!!!