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Tysons, VA, June 30 — Getting ready to fight that point of yr when, in keeping with the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), over a 3rd (38 %, 2023) of U.S. visitors deaths contain drunk drivers, a neighborhood nonprofit group introduced immediately that free secure rides will likely be provided to would-be drunk drivers all through the Washington-metropolitan space throughout this week’s July 4th celebrations.
Supplied by the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP), the 2025 Independence Day SoberRideⓇ program will likely be in operation starting at 4:00 p.m. Friday, July 4th (Independence Day) and operates till 4:00 a.m. on Saturday, July fifth as a technique to hold native roads secure from impaired drivers throughout this historically high-risk vacation.
Throughout this twelve-hour interval, space residents ages 21 and older celebrating with alcohol could obtain the Lyft app to their telephones then enter the SoberRideⓇ code within the app’s ‘Cost’ tab (below the ‘Add Lyft Go’ choice) to obtain their no-cost (as much as $15) secure transportation house. WRAP’s 2025 Independence Day SoberRideⓇ promo code will likely be posted at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, July 4th on www.SoberRide.com.
“Practically 40-percent of U.S. visitors fatalities throughout Independence Day contain drunk drivers in keeping with the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration,” stated Kurt Erickson, WRAP’s President.
WRAP additionally affords its SoberRideⓇ program on the Tremendous Bowl, St. Patrick’s Day, Cinco de Mayo, Halloween and the winter holidays by and together with New 12 months’s.
“Lyft is devoted to offering entry to dependable and accountable rides, and we’re proud to associate with applications like WRAP to supply Lyft as an alternative choice to impaired driving,” stated Kamillah Wooden, Director of Public Coverage for Neighborhood Security at Lyft. “By our Roadway Security Program and our partnerships with the general public we hope to empower our neighborhood with the instruments to guard themselves and people round them this vacation season.”
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SoberRideⓇ is obtainable all through Lyft’s Washington D.C. protection space which incorporates all or components of: the District of Columbia; the Maryland counties of Montgomery and Prince George’s and city therein plus the cities of Bowie, Faculty Park, District Heights, Gaithersburg, Glenarden, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, Laurel, Mount Ranier, New Carrollton, Rockville, Seat Nice and Takoma Park; and the Northern Virginia counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William and cities therein plus the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park.
Sponsors of WRAP’s 2025 Independence Day SoberRideⓇ marketing campaign embody the 395 Specific Lanes, Anheuser-Busch, Beer Institute, Brown-Forman, Chesapeake Area Security Council, Constellation Manufacturers, Diageo, District of Columbia Affiliation of Beverage Alcohol Wholesalers, Enterprise Lease-A-Automotive, Basis for Advancing Alcohol Accountability; Large Meals, Glory Days Grill, Lyft, Molson Coors Beverage Firm, New Belgium Brewing, Restaurant Affiliation Metropolitan Washington and the Washington Space New Car Sellers Affiliation. WRAP’s 2025 Public Companion SoberRideⓇ sponsors embody the District of Columbia Freeway Security Workplace, Maryland Freeway Security Workplace/Maryland Motor Automobile Administration and Virginia Division of Motor Autos.
Since 1991, WRAP’s SoberRideⓇ program has offered 94,857 free secure rides house to would-be drunk drivers within the Better Washington space.
Based in 1982, the nonprofit [501(c)(3)] Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) is an award-winning public-private partnership working to stop drunk driving and underage ingesting within the Washington-metropolitan space. By public schooling, progressive well being schooling, progressive well being education schemes and advocacy, WRAP is credited with serving to to maintain the annual proportion of metro-Washington visitors deaths involving alcohol-impaired driving traditionally decrease than the nationwide common. WRAP, nevertheless, could also be greatest identified to space residents by way of the group’s in style free secure trip service to stop drunk driving, SoberRideⓇ.
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