Posted on Fri, Oct. 17, 2003


DPS receives $1.6 to help prevent DUI fatalities


Associated Press

The Department of Public Safety will use a $1.6 million National Highway Traffic Safety Administration grant to continue a program to reduce alcohol-related traffic accidents.

The grant will help pay for "Sober or Slammer" holiday media campaigns.

The Office of Highway Safety's two-week media campaign around the Fourth of July this year helped reduce traffic fatalities by 39 percent compared with a year earlier, the Department of Public Safety said.





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