Healthy Choices and PC Law Enforcement encourage use of Designated Drivers this holiday season

Phillips County Coalition for Healthy Choices encourages adults to make one of their New Year’s resolutions for 2015, not to drink alcohol and drive.

Thirty-one percent of all the people who died in motor vehicle crashes during New Year’s holidays, died in crashes involving a drunk driver. That statistic has remained the same for the past 10 years in the United States, according to the National Traffic Safety Administration.

Calculating blood alcohol concentration after drinking isn’t as easy as it seems. Everyone is different, whether it is their gender, weight, number of drinks consumed, typ...