A call to action, part 2

    Last time I talked about crashes over the 2018 holiday season that took nine lives in seven crashes over a 72-hour period. We now need to start looking at the causes of these crashes. Each of them had a different reason for the crash, but each one did have one thing in common — a lack of due care on the roadway.
    Let’s start with an obvious one today — mixing drinking, drugs and driving.
    Safety is all about having a preventative mindset. By this I mean why anyone would ever want to push the limit that could injure themselves or others is beyond me. I say it’s not worth it. If you are going out to drink, take the preventative measures to not push that limit, even if you only to plan to have one or two drinks.
    Option 1: Have someone in the group be the designated driver. This option has been around for decades, yet people still fail to realize, or choose to ignore, what the consequences are if you choose to drink and drive.
    Option 2: Plan for someone to pick you up. There are many options available today including sober friends or ride-share services. Again, not rocket science, but very effective.  My question to those who do this type of careless behavior is how many times does it have to be stated for it to become standard practice that no one will ever do it again?
    I have arrested plenty of people who went out to have a couple of drinks and ended up in jail. Their life is forever changed from that point on. I like to think I prevented them from making their life much worse because they killed someone prior to being stopped by law enforcement.

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