Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) of North Carolina will kick-off its annual Tie One On For Safety holiday ribbon project. Representatives from the branches of law enforcement will join MADD in helping to keep the roadways safe this coming holiday. Justin Morgan a 9-year-old drunk driving victim who lost his friend Pattie Burdoff in the same crash on 12/08/06 will be kicking off his campaign to break a world record. Justin will be asking individuals to donate one penny each (487 deaths = $4.87 donation request) in honor of the victims that were killed over the past year in North Carolina.

MADD's Tie One On For Safety project urges motorists to tie a MADD red ribbon to a visible location on their vehicles, as a pledge to drive safe and sober and wear their seat belts. MADD has plans to distribute these ribbons across the State in over 1,000 locations, including every State Farm Insurance office within North Carolina.

This year Tie One On For Safety celebrates over 27 years of lifesaving awareness with a chance for the public and city leaders to join MADD's Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving. MADD calls for intensive, high-visibility law enforcement efforts like sobriety checkpoints; advocates that all convicted drunk drivers have an alcohol ignition interlock installed on their vehicles; and supports the research of transparent, vehicle-based technologies that will prevent a drunk driver from driving drunk.

 Nationally, the holidays are among the deadliest times on the road.
  --  From Thanksgiving to New Year's in 2007, over 1,150 drunk driving
      fatalities.
  --  Half a million are injured each year in alcohol-related traffic
      crashes.
  --  13,000 drunk driving fatalities annually.
  --  Nearly 1.4 million drunk driving arrests occur annually.