`TIPSY TOW' SAVES LIVES; HIGHER CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL IN SUMMER PROMPTS AUTOMOBILE CLUB TO EXTEND SERVICE.Byline: Daily News More alcoholic beverages
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Automobile Club of Southern California The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded December 13, 1900 in Los Angeles as one of the nation's first motor clubs dedicated to improving roads, proposing traffic laws and improvement of overall driving conditions. . The five-year daily average for the number of people killed or injured in alcohol-related crashes during the July 4th holiday is 192 or 35 percent more than the 142 over Thanksgiving and 25 percent more than the 154 killed or injured over New Year's, according to an auto club analysis. To help reduce these statistics, the auto club is expanding ``Tipsy Tow'' to the July 4th holiday. Tipsy Tow is a community service that provides a free ride home for drinking drivers and their vehicles. Tipsy Tow started in December as an addition to the auto club's continuing alcohol awareness program - ``You Drink. You Drive. You Lose.'' The program informs drivers of the consequences of a first-time DUI conviction, including nearly $11,000 in court fines, penalties, alcohol education fees, legal costs and increased insurance rates. ``The public often associates drinking and driving under the influence with the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's holidays, and organizations have typically focused on drinking and driving education at that time of year,'' said Kelly Clark Kelly Clark (born July 26, 1983) is an snowboarder born in Newport, Rhode Island. She has been snowboarding since she was 8 years old, and began competing in 1999. She became a member of the US Snowboard team in 2000, and later won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. , the auto club's Santa Clarita district manager. ``While people celebrate and drink during the winter holidays, the fact is that summer holidays are actually a more lethal time for alcohol-related collisions.'' Any time on Friday, motorists, bartenders, restaurant managers, party hosts or passengers of a drinking driver in the 13 Southern California counties the auto club serves may call (800) 400-4AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. for a free tow home of up to seven miles. Callers simply tell the auto club operator, ``I need a `Tipsy Tow,' '' to receive the free tow and ride home. A regular auto club-contracted emergency road service truck will be dispatched. ``More than 200,000 Californians are convicted of driving under the influence annually, which translates into one person every 2.5 minutes. We'd like to reduce that number and make roads and highways List of articles related to roads and highways around the world. International/World
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