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drunk driving, support the Home Page Make 2006 the year that you got MADD!! Join today! Volunteers are always needed. HOME Pennsylvania State Organization 2323 Patton Road Harrisburg, PA 17112 Phone (717) 657-3911 Fax (717) 540-4824 Victim Hotline: 1-800-848-6233 Email: maddpa@verizon.net Chapter Directory Board of Directors Press Room Victim Services Regional NEWS Victim Tribute State Office STAFF Public Awareness Corporate Sponsors Education History of MADD Legislation Join MADD! .08 BAC Matrix Find Local Media Statistics LINKS Safe Party Guide Red Ribbon Campaign Ways You Can Help ! Donate Locally Simply click on the headings listed above in bright green to visit that page. WELCOME to the official web site of MADD, Pennsylvania! Please browse our site to learn more about the exciting programs and services offered by our volunteers & staff throughout Pennsylvania. In 2004 , there were 542 people killed in alcohol-related crashes in our state. Pennsylvania has the 5th highest number of alcohol related traffic deaths in the Nation, check back often and join us in the fight to Save Lives! MADD's mission is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime and prevent underage drinking. Get involved in MADD's efforts to Save Lives! Click on the clipboard below to open & print a Volunteer Application in Adobe PDF format. Click on the DVD below to request a free DVD about volunteer opportunities with MADD, Pennsylvania! Click the appropriate icon below, please allow time to download High Speed Modem Users Dial-Up Modem Users Click on the police car to receive a FREE - MADD, PA Bumper Sticker! We continue to remember the brave men and women of our armed forces that are fighting to preserve our freedom and world peace. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a District of Columbia not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime and prevent underage drinking. The MADD national office is located at 511 E. John Carpenter Freeway, Suite 700, Irving, TX, 75062. The information enclosed describes one or more of MADDs activities. Your gift is very much appreciated and tax deductible as a charitable contribution to the fullest extent allowed by law. The official registration and financial information of MADD may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll-free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. visitors have viewed our web site. This web site was last updated in January of 2006.
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Intoxicated driving is incompatible Drunk Drivers - The Hardcore Facts Drunk Drivers -- The Hardcore Facts by HM1 Alvin Grant, USN Hardcore drunk drivers can be defined as individuals who drive with high blood alcohol concentrations (BAC's) of .15 or above. They do so repeatedly, as demonstrated by having more than one drunk driving arrest, and are extremely resistant to changing their behavior, despite previous sanctions, jail, treatment, education or disciplinary efforts. Terms like "subsequent offender," "problem drinker/driver" and "unfit/unsafe driver" are definitions used to alter the true perception of the drunk. A drunk under the influence never becomes a felon without involving some fatal or serious injury. They know the law, because to manipulate any system, you must understand how it works. Intoxicated driving is incompatible with the maintenance of high standards of performance, military discipline, personnel reliability, and readiness. Any person who engages in intoxicated driving, regardless of the geographic location of the incident, has demonstrated a serious disregard for the safety of themselves and others. There are approximately 3.3 million licensed drivers and the average BAC level of offenders arrested is approximately .17, well above the national BAC limit of .08. A Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) is the percentage by weight, of alcohol in a person's blood as determined by blood, urine, or breath analysis. Percent of weight by volume of alcohol in the blood is based on grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood. Suspension of driving privileges is mandatory based upon an arrest report or other official documentation of the circumstances of an apprehension for intoxicated driving. On government installations the legal BAC limit is .05. However, keep in mind, there is zero tolerance for alcohol abuse at all times. If an individual refuses to submit to a lawfully requested BAC test, when there has been a conviction, nonjudicial punishment, or civilian revocation or suspension of driving privileges for intoxicated driving, regardless of any prior administrative determination; suspension of base driving privileges for one year is mandatory. Did you know that it is your responsibility to notify your command of any DUI or DWI within 24 hours? This is in your best interest. We are here to assist in education and to help get the free medical treatment you require for your level of abuse. For those individuals who have received multiple DUI/DWI citations and or convictions, your original one-year suspension may be increased by two years after a hearing. Exceptions to the mandatory suspension provisions may be granted under regulations concerned on a case-by-case basis. Such exceptions may be granted only on the basis of mission requirements, unusual personal or family hardship or with respect to a person who has no reasonably available alternate means of transportation to officially assigned duties. A limited exception shall be granted for the sole purpose of driving directly to and from such duties. This does not authorize the person to drive on a military installation, but allows for exceptional situations where public transportation, carpool, and taxi services are unavailable. There are several enforcement techniques used to detect and apprehend drunk drivers, but some drunk or drugged drivers may appear to never get caught. Sobriety checkpoints, blanket patrols, enforcement blitzes with media campaigns, standardized field sobriety testing, and mobile video-taping all provide the sooner or later apprehension of all drunk or drugged drivers. One way is the sharing of information across state lines so that out-of-state offenses are included in an offender's driving history. Uniformly this is not being done. It has a direct impact on the identification of the hardcore offender who, without cross-state record keeping, can easily move his license to another state to avoid being identified as a multiple or repeat offender. The Driver License Compact (DLC), an agreement among 47 states, is another attempt to prevent offenders from skirting the law. It's one driver license and one driver record concept, which requires the surrender of an out-of-state driver's license when applying for a new one and requirement that complete driving records be maintained in the driver's state of residence for 10 years to determine driving eligibility. This would include cross state reporting of all traffic violations, convictions, license suspensions and revocations to the home state licensing agency and treatment of offenses committed in other states as though they have been committed in the members home state. Or would you prefer the loss of your friend or family member? << Return to Self-help Main
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blood alcohol level at CNN - Report: Driver's alcohol level even higher than reported - September 1, 1997 The Investigation: Sources: Tests showDiana's driver suffered 'moderate, chronic alcoholism' The Funeral: A Final Farewell Multimedia: The Funeral Procession Video: The Procession Mourning Princess Diana: A Photo Gallery Video: Elton John's Musical Tribute Video: Earl Spencer's Tribute Princess Diana: Related stories and sites British coverage: ITN coverage Report: Driver's alcohol level even higher than reported September 2, 1997 Web posted at: 11:35 p.m. EDT (0335 GMT) Latest developments: Did driver taunt paparazzi? Prosecutors: Speedometer on zero, not 196 kph Contradictory portrait emerging of driver Experts: Seat belts may have saved Diana, Fayed Related stories and sites PARIS (CNN) -- More disturbing news emerged Tuesday about the driver of the car in which Princess Diana was killed: His blood alcohol level at the time of the wreck may have been even higher than originally believed. Who's to blame? CNN's Brent Sadler reports 2 min., 30 sec. VXtreme streaming video Also, press reports suggested that the driver, Henri Paul, had taunted photographers who chased the Mercedes S280 before it crashed Sunday in a Paris tunnel near the Seine River. The French newspaper Le Monde said Tuesday that Paul, who was killed in the crash along with Diana's boyfriend Dodi Fayed, may have been more intoxicated than judicial sources said Monday. The newspaper said a second police toxicology analysis registered a level of 1.87 grams of alcohol-per-liter of blood -- higher than the initial 1.75 figure. If confirmed, that would give the driver a blood-alcohol level nearly four times than 0.5 grams-per-liter legal limit in France. Even the lower figure of 1.75 grams -- the equivalent of quickly drinking nine shots of whiskey -- would mean that Paul had a blood alcohol content of at least 0.175 percent. Most U.S. states consider a driver to be legally drunk when a blood alcohol content of 0.10 percent is reached. Did driver taunt paparazzi? The Times of London on Tuesday cited unconfirmed reports that the driver had taunted the paparazzi by saying, "Catch me if you can," before speeding away from the hotel with Diana, Fayed and a bodyguard. Several newspapers similarly quoted an unnamed photographer as hearing Paul boasting to waiting paparazzi: "You won't catch me." However, a spokesman for Fayed's father and Paul's employer, Mohammed Al Fayed, said the driver did not appear drunk to hotel employees and did not taunt photographers as the couple left the Paris Ritz hotel, which the elder Al Fayed owns. Spokesman Michael Cole said that after the crash, Al Fayed dispatched his security director -- a former Scotland Yard detective chief superintendent -- to Paris. Cole said Paul did not appear drunk to hotel employees, that he did not taunt photographers, and that the speedometer on the doomed Mercedes S280 was not stuck on a high rate of speed following the fatal crash. Cole said Al Fayed's investigators found "the allegation that Paul taunted the press as he drove away from the front of the hotel is untrue. He left from the rear exit and at a time when, according to film evidence, no paparazzi were in the immediate vicinity." Prosecutors: Speedometer on zero, not 196 kph Prosecutors on Tuesday also said the speedometer in the Mercedes was stuck on zero, not 196 kph (121 mph) as a police sourcehad previously said. Paul had driven Diana and Dodi Fayed into Paris earlier in the day after arriving in the city by plane, according to a statement by London's Harrods luxury store, which the elder Al Fayed also owns. Paul was on duty at the hotel until about 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Cole said. He left the hotel after it appeared that Diana and Dodi Fayed had left the hotel for the evening. Paul returned to the hotel at about 10:10 p.m. after he was told the couple had unexpectedly decided to return to dine at the hotel, Cole said. "He was observed driving his own car to the hotel, parking it in the normal way and walking normally into the hotel," the Al Fayed spokesman said. "In the hotel he spoke to a number of members of staff, none of whom detected any smell of drink or any other signs to suggest he had been drinking," the Al Fayed spokesman said. Contradictory portrait emerging of driver But colleagues interviewed in the French press painted contradictory pictures of the No. 2 security man at the Ritz; some describing him as a teetotaler and others as a drunk. Some friends and colleagues expressed surprise that the 41-year-old former air force officer was involved in the crash. "He was a very friendly guy, very serious," one longtime friend, Air France pilot Jean-Louis Le Baraillec, told the Ouest France daily. "One cannot say he was a drunk," a Ritz colleague told the daily Le Parisien. In the daily Liberation, one Ritz employee, speaking anonymously, said Paul had given up drinking last year and had been seen drinking only orange juice at a reception at the hotel last week. But another said he came to work one day last week completely intoxicated. The statement by Harrods praised Paul as a "conscientious and responsible member of staff" and stressed that he had twice attended special driving classes for limousine chauffeurs at a Mercedes-Benz training track in Germany. The popular daily France-Soir quoted an anonymous Ritz official as describing Paul as "calm and very competent." "He mastered the technique of high-speed driving," he said. Sunday morning, "he must have been surprised by the car's power and could not control the speed." Lawyer to seek another blood test A lawyer for Paul's family, Jean-Pierre Brizay, said he will insist on another blood test to try to disprove allegations of drunkenness. Brizay insisted Paul was "a professional of the highest level" who worked for the Ritz for 13 years. "You can't bring him back to life, but you can defend his memory," Brizay said. Asked about the level of alcohol investigators say they found in Paul's bloodstream, he said: "I reserve my judgment. I want to see how it was checked." The driver's body now lies in a French morgue, and he will be buried in his native Brittany this weekend. Civil suits brought, another possible Both Paul's family and Al Fayed have brought civil suits in the case against photographers being investigated by police and a French magistrate, according to Brizay and a lawyer for Al Fayed. On Tuesday, Al Fayed lawyer George Kiejman said the billionaire businessman was joining the case against the photographers to prove that there was a cause and effect "between the pursuit (by paparazzi) and the accident." A French judge on Tuesday named six photographers and a motorcyclist as manslaughter suspects in the fatal crash. Meanwhile, Al Fayed's business empire could face a lawsuit by Princess Diana's grieving relatives. A French legal expert, Henri Adler, said that under French law, Diana's family may be able to claim damages from the Ritz. "If (the driver) committed a crime, which seems to be the case ... the victims may sue his employer in front of a civil court to ask for reparation, damages, etc.," said Adler, the former president of the Paris bar association. Whether a degree of criminal responsibility is eventually proved or not, a deadly mixture of circumstances seems to have led to Princess Diana's death -- car speed, alcohol and photographers in hot pursuit. 'Everybody blaming everybody else' "One of the difficulties of the moment is now everybody is blaming everybody else," said Anne Applebaum of the Sunday Telegraph in London. "The tabloid press is now blaming the Al Fayed family for allowing drunken security guard to drive the car that had the Princess of Wales in it," Applebaum said. "Quite a lot of people are still blaming the tabloid press for buying photographs from photographers that will chase a car. Other people are blaming the public for buying those tabloid newspapers." In some quarters in England, public opinion blames the Al Fayed organization. "It's an appalling lack of security on the part of the people that were supposed to be in charge of the security, and it's a tragic shame," said one Londoner. "What a way to end a life." Experts: Seat belts may have saved Diana, Fayed Meanwhile, British automotive safety experts said Diana and Fayed might have survived the crash had they been wearing seat belts. French police refuse to say whether they were wearing seat belts, but media reports say they were not. The lone survivor was bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, who was sitting in the front passenger seat and was wearing a seat belt and had the benefit of an air bag. Rees-Jones is conscious and out of danger, but his face was badly damaged in the crash and it will be weeks before he can speak to investigators, a lawyer for the Al Fayed family said. "We know that the impact speed with the post was survivablebecause the bodyguard survived," said British road safety expert Richard Cuerden, the head of the University of Birmingham's Accident Research Center. "We expect that people in the rear have as good a chance, if not better, of making it," he told Reuters. "It is hypothetical, but if Princess Diana were wearing a belt, she may not have sustained life-threatening injuries." Paris Bureau Chief Jim Bittermann, Correspondents Brent Sadler and Walter Rodgers, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. Related Stories and Sites Princess Diana Dead - Message board Sound off on our message boards You said it... © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.
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