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November 4, 2025

Are You Looking for an E-Bike? Discover How to Share the Road Safely

This is a guest blog post by Victoria Carlborg, a Community Advocate from California. If you drive in nearly any urban, suburban or rural community around […]
October 30, 2025

Daylight Savings Time: A Strike Against Pedestrians—Literally

This post is reposted with permission from Mi Ae Lipe’s Driving in the Real World Substack, and is written in cooperation with lighting expert Daniel Stern.  […]
April 3, 2024

What You Can Do to Stop Distracted Driving

After more than 40 years of campaigning against impaired driving, I launched several campaigns against another hazard: Distracted driving, the fastest-growing cause of traffic fatalities today. […]
October 29, 2025

The Courage to Intervene

This is a guest post by Mi Ae Lipe, creator of the Substack Driving in the Real World.     Recently I attended a traffic safety conference […]
October 23, 2023
Girl in princess costume trick-or-treating

Now THIS is Scary…

Did you know that Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for children who are pedestrians? On this day, more than twice as many children are […]
July 24, 2025

We Save Lives: Confronting Teenage Drinking and Driving

When I first started MADD, I was sitting in my office one day when a gray-haired gentleman, Kenneth Nelson, walked in and asked to see me. […]
October 17, 2023

How to Keep Your Child Safe on the School Bus

The first crash I was in just happened to be on a bus when I was going to school. I was 13 and the bus driver […]
May 22, 2024
teen driver safety

LETTER TO NEW TEEN DRIVERS

Dear Newly Licensed Teen Driver, In 2006 my son Reid, the driver, died in a one car crash, at age 17, eleven months after getting his […]
September 2, 2025

Forever 13: Stories of Cari’s Impact

There’s nothing quite as comforting as hearing a story about a loved one who has passed away. For me, it often feels even more meaningful than […]
September 19, 2016

Cari’s Story

When Clarence Busch killed my daughter, he was out on bail from another hit and run drunk driving crash and had an astonishing 3 prior convictions […]