Weekend Warning: Super Bowl Sunday One of Most Deadly Drunk Driving Days of Year

The National Commission Against Drunk Driving (NCADD) is available to discuss ways that motorists can avoid becoming a tragic statistic on Super Bowl Sunday -- one of the single most deadly drunk driving days of the year.

  WHY:    The latest national drunk driving statistics for years 2000
          through 2002 show:

  * On the average day, 116 people were killed in traffic crashes with 48 of
    them (41 percent) alcohol related. However, on Super Bowl Sunday, total
    highway deaths jumped to 131 with 76 of them (58 percent) alcohol
    related.

  * The only holiday that had a higher percentage of traffic deaths that
    were alcohol-related than Super Bowl Sunday (58 percent) was New Year's
    Day (63 percent).

In response, the NCADD is issuing a warning to football fans and Super Bowl party hosts and party-goers to make them aware of its drunk driving prevention guide called "Take a Stand on Impaired Driving."

The publication is available for free at the NCADD web site (www.ncadd.com) and includes a "Safe Party Guide" with tips on how to be a responsible party host, facts about the affects of alcohol on driving skills, statistics on drunk driving, and how to spot an impaired driver.

  WHO:    JOHN MOULDEN, President of the National Commission Against Drunk
          Driving (NCADD), who is a 30-year veteran expert on drunk driving
          at the local, state and national levels.

  WHEN:   Anytime today through Super Bowl Sunday

PRNewswire -- Jan. 29