Maryland woman named MADD national president
MADD, the national organization dedicated to fighting drunk driving, announced Thursday that a Maryland woman who lost her 15-year-old daughter in a crash caused by an intoxicated motorist has been elected its national president.
Jan Withers of Upper Marlboro, who will serve a three-year term at MADD's helm, was introduced at a news conference at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
According to MADD, Withers joined the group in 1992 after her daughter, Alisa Joy, was killed in a crash caused by an underage drunk driver. Withers, who has served as a MADD volunteer for almost 20 years, will take office July 1.
According to MADD, Withers was an active participant in the successful national and Maryland campaigns to lower the blood-alcohol content level at which a driver is considered drunk from .10 to .08, which has become the national standard. She has served on the national MADD board since 2005.
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What does this have to do with local transportation issues?
Good for Jan Withers, I suppose; but too bad there's nothing she can do through MADD to stop underage drinkers who are already obtaining alcohol illegally, and then choosing to get on the road.
Let me put it like this - MADD would be better served trying to get legislation passed to restrict teen's access to cars than they are by trying to make a thought crime of adults driving after consuming a reasonable amount of alcohol.
Posted by: DAMM spokesman | April 21, 2011 7:48 PM
DAMM spokesman, I'm sure you're a real prince, but you may be too stupid for words. What does drunk driving have to do with transportation? Let's think about that for a second. How do you transport yourself? Don't know about you, but I drive. If I did that drunkenly, that sounds like it could be a transportation safety issue. And how do you figure that passing legislation to prevent teens from access to cars (whatever that means) would keep drunks from killing people on the road? MADD stands for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Not Mothers against drunk teens driving. This isn't an anti-teen driver group. Your speaking privileges have been revoked.
Posted by: MoeDiggity | April 22, 2011 2:59 PM