December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month. The goal of this annual observance is to raise awareness about the dangers of driving while impaired. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), every day in the US, approximately 29 people, or one person every 50 minutes, die in motor vehicle crashes involving a substance-impaired driver.1 There are effective measures that can help prevent injuries and deaths resulting from impaired driving. Join us in raising awareness this month and helping keep people safe on the road.
Visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Transportation Safety webpage for more information and for strategies to prevent substance impaired driving.
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (2020).
