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Once launched, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) proved a virtually irresistible force. Now headquartered near Dallas, where Lightner moved, MADD has 320 chapters nationwide and 600,000 volunteers and donors. In response to Lightner's efforts, California passed a tough new law in 1981 that imposes minimum fines of $375 and mandatory imprisonment of up to four years for repeat offenders. By now all 50 states have tightened their drunk-driving laws. And Lightner keeps making speeches, lobbying legislators and generally creating waves. Last July she stood beside President Ronald Reagan as he signed a new law reducing federal highway...
...account for less than 20% of total vehicle miles driven. Teen-agers from 16 to 19 make up just 7% of licensed drivers but are involved in nearly 15% of the fatal crashes in which alcohol is a factor. Says Candy Lightner, president of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD),* of the pro-21 proposals: "There is nothing more important today than reducing the No. 1 killer and crippler of young Americans...
...proliferation of lawyers who take on drunken-driving cases is the predictable result of a national crusade to break the connection between alcohol and death on the highways. That movement has been gathering momentum since 1980, when the first branch of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) was formed in California. MADD and its many allies have just had their best year. In 1983, 40 states toughened their drunken-driving statutes. At least nine passed laws mandating jail terms for second offenders; 39 states now have such laws. Eight states, most recently Wisconsin, passed laws raising their drinking ages...
Groups such as MADD and Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD)--a high school group begun in Massachusetts--have started to spread educational programs. SADD members sign contracts with their parents about calling home for drives--no questions asked. But there are only so many people these small groups can hope to reach...
...Lawler, who is president of the greater Boston chapter of MADD, doesn't want sympathy. She says, "I can feel sorry enough for myself. What I want people...