According ToMADD Drunk Drivers Cost Society ) < ■ By Lori Grier Post Staff Writer "THEY’RE MADD, AND THEY THINK YOU i SHOULD BE TOO! The following statistics about drunk drivers are life taking. You should be aware of what they are, because one day you might be included in them. Drunk drivers cause more deaths, injuries and destruction than murder ers, muggers, robbers, rapists and thieves. Over the past decade, 250,000 Americans have died be cause of drunken drivng an average of 25,000 Ame ricans a year, or 70 a day. This is more than five times the number of U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam. Drunk drivers cost society 924 billion each year in court time, rehabilitation, lost earnings and other expenses. MADD’i (Mothers Against Drunk • Drivers) is the VOICE of the VICTIM. It is dedicated to bringing victims’ rights and the issues of drunk driving into the public eye - and keeping them there. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers began as Candy Lightner’s crusade for per sonal Justice when her daughter, Cari, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver on May 3, I960. At one time MADD consisted of Candy and a few friends working out of her bonne. Today, it is a movement of victims and concerned men and women with more than 96 chapters in more than 30 states. Mrs. Lucy Dickens, uro gram chairman of the Charlotte Chapter of MADD, became a member at the first meeting held May, 1963. There are eight active members, four who attend according to the schedules and 75 who give monetary contributions. Their meetings being at 6 p m. on the Third Tuesday of each month in the Youth Lounge at St. John’s Bap tist Church. Mrs. Carolyn Williams, president, has one son; Paul Alwine, vice president, has two children ' ^ “a “d L®cy Dickens is shown with her six and one-half year-old daughter. Rachel. Mrs. Card York, secre tary-treasurer, has two sons. Ironically, none of the members of the Charlotte Chapter of MADD have lost any children to drunk drivers. “I got involved with MADD because I wanted to live to be a mother. I almost didn’t live to get married,” began Dickens. The mother of six and one-half year-old Rachel recalls the terrible incident which took place in Janu ary, 1981. “My boy friend, Hank (now husband), an other man and I were in volved in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. The drunk driver crossed five lanes to hit my car head on and I slammed on my brakes. I wondered what it would be like to be dead. His car was drivable, but mine cost me almost 14,000 worth of damage. I told him, ‘You could have killed us!’ He said, ‘Shut up! It happens all the time.’” According to Dickens, die police let Mm drive away from the scene know ing that be was intoxicat ed, because be only lived three blocks away. She was ^•enUd^wayftemhame and had to get there the best way she could. The police also gave the drunk driver, who had no car insurance, tickets for fail ure to control speed and failure to avoid an acci dent. The full-time mother laughs about the unbeliev able act of the police aad adds, “1 feel fortunate that I wasn’t injured. I only received scrapes and bruis es on my legs and a bump on the bead from the sun visor. Some people are crippled or maimed for Hfe.” She married Hank nine months after the car accident. When Dickens was a kin dergarten teacher in Texas in 1878 she attended a , funeral with four caskets. One casket contained the body of Mr student who, along with three members of her family were killed in a car acci dent caused by a drunk driver. The student left behind, her father and two brothers. Two of the three boys were UV^I ia the car which contained the drunk driver. On the weekend aMlai loween, 1982, Rose little, drhupr, WfruwsHjapr ^2“S3S£1MJ way, near Outlet Square Mall, going went bound on out bound aid* she sidqpwiped one oar and hit anotbnr «ne trend on, The pssamger of Little's car need your help to spread the word against drunk drivers and monitor in courts to see how our laws aren’t or are working for the victims.” To Become involved, all you have to do is write Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, P. 0. Box 280045, Charlotte, N.C. 28222 or call 588-4325. 638,000 or 1.30 per share last year. Per share amounts are adjusted for the five for three stock split in October, 1983. Winn-Dixie opened 30 new stores and dosed 16 older stores since June 29, 1963, having 1,224 units in operation on January 11, 1984, compared with 1,220 last year. eU aad the National Pre-Ahunni Council, February M2. Alumni, administrators and students, representing tbe 42 United Negro College Fund. 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