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NHTSA & Partners to Announce Tough New Approach to Drunk Driving; Massive Ad Blitz & Enforcement Crackdown; NHTSA to also Announce Final 2005 Statistics on Alcohol-Related Fatalities, Including State and County Data
On Wednesday, August 16 at 12 p.m., Acting U.S. Secretary of Transportation Maria Cino, will lead a press conference at the Montgomery County Police and Fire Training Academy in Rockville, MD. She will be joined by Administrator Nicole Nason, of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty; and top officials of three NHTSA advocacy organizations: The International Association of Chiefs of Police; the Governors Highway Safety Association; and MADD. They will announce an aggressive new national enforcement crackdown on impaired drivers: Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest. To underscore the severity of the problem, NHTSA will also release final 2005 statistics on alcohol-related fatalities, including state-by-state statistics and data on counties in the metropolitan Washington, DC area. WHO WHAT WHEN Montgomery County Police and Fire Training Academy 9710 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, Maryland RSVP ### *EDITOR'S NOTES: Media should arrive by 11:45 a.m. This will be a visually stunning event. After the event, individual interviews will be available with key officials of NHTSA, GHSA, IACP, and MADD. There will be a demonstration of a standardized field sobriety test on an impaired person. In addition, please note that DVDs with the new TV and radio ads, as well as B-roll of sobriety checkpoints, will be available to reporters and producers at the news conference.
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