Des Plaines raises impaired-driving awareness in December

Submitted by Karen Kozenczak

Mayor Martin J. Moylan and the Des Plaines City Council recently presented a proclamation designating December 2011 as Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month.

The proclamation stated that motor vehicle crashes killed 927 people in Illinois during 2010 and that hundreds of those deaths involved a driver impaired by alcohol and/or drugs. The document, signed by the mayor, further calls upon “all citizens, government, agencies, business leaders, hospitals and health care providers, schools, and public and private institutions to promote awareness of the impaired driving problem, to support programs and policies to reduce the incidence of impaired driving, and to promote safer and healthier behaviors regarding the use of alcohol and other drugs this December holiday season and throughout the year.”

The Des Plaines Police Department regularly supports public awareness campaigns focusing on the dangers of impaired driving. Quoting from the proclamation at the December City Council Meeting, Mayor Moylan, in the company of Deputy Police Chief Mike Kozak, stated that “the community of Des Plaines is proud to partner with the Illinois Department of Transportation’s Division of Traffic Safety and other traffic safety groups in that effort to make our roads and streets safer.”

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