Alcohol-Impaired Driving Is on the Rise; Here’s What We Can Do About It

Alcohol-Impaired Driving Is on the Rise; Here’s What We Can Do About It

by James Eberspacher, Division Director, National Center for DWI Courts In 1988, Larry Mahoney drove his pickup truck down the wrong side of Kentucky’s I-71, hitting a church bus head on and killing 24 children and three adults. The incident, which became known as the Carrollton Bus Crash, remains the deadliest impaired-driving incident in American history. The crash received national media attention and resulted in a crackdown on impaired driving. Between 1982 and 2014, the number […]