South Carolina’s MADD came up with a new way to drive home the message that drunk driving kills – a new special license plate remembering drunk driving victims.
In South Carolina alone, drunk driving claimed 358 victims in 2012. That year, more than 10,000 died across the nation.
A $20 bill buys the plate, and ten dollars of the initial sale goes to support MADD’s work in the purchaser’s state. Could this work in Texas? No reason why it couldn’t be tried.
It’s one more effective, visual, and very mobile campaign to repeat the oft-heard refrain: don’t drink and drive.
Even though every state has drunk driving campaigns, inebriated drivers still cause deaths with dismaying regularity. Why not do one more thing to help make a difference?
About The Author
Kenneth "Tray" Gober III, J.D., is the Managing Partner of Lee, Gober & Reyna, PLLC in Austin, Texas. A 2005 magna cum laude graduate of Texas A&M University and an honors graduate of Baylor Law School, Tray is admitted to the State Bars of Texas (Bar No. 300408), Colorado, and Pennsylvania, and to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. He represents personal injury clients across Texas in car accidents, truck accidents, autonomous vehicle claims, wrongful death, drunk driving collisions, premises liability, and product liability matters. He is one of Texas's most frequently quoted legal voices on the law surrounding autonomous vehicles and AI-driven transportation. Tray also serves as an adjunct professor of Paralegal Studies at the University of Texas School of Law.