Lindsey

My 25year old son Lindsey and his 21year old friend Raymond were killed by a drunk driver on July 2, 2010.

Raymond had called Lindsey to go out that night and Lindsey said he would but told Raymond he did not want to drink as he had to be at work for 7:00 in the morning. Whenever Lindsey and his friends went out they always made sure there would be a non -drinking designated driver... Read More...

MADD National proudly selects Lieutenant Joshua Battista as our Officer of the Month for July 2021.  Lieutenant Battista supervises the Traffic Unit of the Goose Creek, South Carolina Police Department.  They exercise a zero-tolerance policy with regard to driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol or other substances. Under his supervision, Lieutenant Battista’s team was responsible for the following statistics between July 2019 through June 2021...  Read More...

My relationship with MADD started in the early morning hours shortly after midnight on a hot Central Florida summer night in the early nineties.  I was a rookie State Troop working a serious crash where a couple had been killed after being hit head on by an impaired driver.  I cleared the scene and headed to the address on the victim’s driver license, not really sure who would be there as it was obvious to me that this couple was married.  It dawned on me as I pulled into their driveway and I could see little faces looking... Read More...