The AgriLife Extension Service is promoting their campaign to reduce drunk driving and alcohol-related fatalities. The “Watch Ur BAC,” (watch your blood alcohol content) program focuses on binge-drinking and how consumption rates can impact intoxication.
College Station Police Sergeant Jason Summers said finding a designated driver before drinking is a reliable way to prevent alcohol from influencing decisions later.
He said even though education about drinking and driving is widely available, people still risk arrest or death by driving drunk. “I firmly believe that everybody hears the message and everybody knows what the right thing to do is, unfortunately, it gets lost somewhere.”
Summers, co-chair on the DWI law enforcement advisory group for the program, said designated drivers, taxis, and other ride programs are increasingly popular options used by the public. He said “It pleases us as a law enforcement agency to see people taking those steps to keep themselves out of trouble and keep everybody else safe.”
Nearly eleven hundred, Texas traffic fatalities in 2012 were related to alcohol.
More information about the program is available on the Watch Ur BAC website.
