Ding in the New Year program looks to reduce impaired driving, save lives
It is a story we hear all too often: innocent lives thrown into havoc at the hands of a drunk driver.
For Robin Keays, it was September of 1994. She and some friends were heading from one party North of Prince Albert to one South of the city. On their commute, a deer leapt out in front of the vehicle she was in. The driver attempted to stop but was rear-ended by a driver from behind. The impact was so hard the truck’s box was pushed into the rear of the cab. Keays knew the driver was impaired as he was a friend of hers and she had shared liquor with him that night.
“He chose to change my life forever,” Keays, the vice president of the Prince Albert MADD Chapter, said Monday at an event to highlight the Ding in the New Year program.
The program offers free public transit from 7:15 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 31 to 3 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2018, to ensure everyone can enjoy the holidays and get home safe.