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RIDE
Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere
Sober drivers will be rewarded this year when
they're stopped by OPP in Huron and Perth
Counties.
RIDE reward cards offer discounts to drivers
from Canadian Tire, McDonald's, and New
Orleans Pizza and 15,000 of them will be given
out during the Festival RIDE season which is
about to begin across the two counties.
RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere)
is a police spotcheck for drinking drivers. During
the holiday season, when instances of drinking
and driving tend to increase because of the
number of events and parties where alcohol is
served, additional RIDE programs are held
across the counties.
The traffic safety subcommittee of the Huron Perth Injury Prevention Committee
together the program as a way of thanking drivers for not drinking.
In Canada, 4.5 people die every 24 hours because of drinking drivers and more than 300
Canadians are injured.
In 1995, 1,529 people were killed.
In Ontario, 34 per cent of the population has been in a car with an impaired driver and 5.7 per
cent have been in a crash because of someone else's drinking.
In Huron County, 2.16 per cent of drivers involved in traffic crashes were impaired in 1994;
4.73 per cent had been drinking.
Again in Huron County, in 1985, 167 drivers_ in crashes had been drinking and 33 of those
were impaired. In 1994, 68 had been drinking and 31 were impaired.
RIDE programs take drunk drivers off the roads and also serve as a deterrent to drinking and
driving because people don't know when or where OPP will hold checks; particularly during
the holiday season when more funding is available for police to specifically operate the spot
checkS.
At night, one out of five drivers on Canadian roads has been drinking and one in 25 is legally
impaired. Four times more fatal accidents occur at night.
RIDE checks, however, are held at any time.
When stopping vehicles, police will hand out the RIDE Reward cards supported by Canadian
Tire, McDonald's and New Orleans Pizza which offer discounts until March 31.
Members of the traffic safety subcommittee that have developed the program include OPP
officers, concerned citizens, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, IMPACT (a hospital-based
program that illustrates the dangers of drinking and driving), OSAID (Ontario Students
Against Impaired Driving) health units in both counties and the Ministry of Transportation.
All five police services in the two counties will be distributing the cards with MADD red
ribbons.
The ribbons are given out as a reminder not to drink and drive and are tied to aerials on
vehicles.
RIDE rewards will be given out throughout the holiday season.
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