The Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers join TEAM Georgia and the Atlanta business community to urge safe and sober holiday celebrations.
Click here to see our Safe Holiday Brochure with useful tips.
For A Safe and Free Ride Home ask your server to call you a CHECKER CAB:
404-351-1111
SAMPLE LIST OF PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS: Atkins Park Restaurant - Atlanta, Smyrna, Cumming; Babette's Café©; Buckhead Life Restaurant Group - 103 West, Atlanta Fish Market, Bluepointe, Buckhead Diner, Chops/Lobster Bar, Corner Café/Buckhead Bread Company, Kyma, Nava, Pano's & Paul's, Pricci, Veni Vidi Vici; City Grill Restaurant; Dailey's Restaurant & Bar; French American Brasserie; Maggiano's Little Italy - Buckhead; Siam Square... (Check back for updates).
TEAM Georgia's annual Safe Holiday Campaign has strengthened its line-up for 2007, partnering with both The Atlanta Thrashers and Atlanta Hawks to encourage sober driving and safe holiday gatherings during the coming weeks. Officials from TEAM Georgia and the Governor's Office of Highway Safety will be joined by the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers, metro Atlanta leaders from government, business, tourism and the hospitality industry for the launch of the 2007 TEAM Georgia Safe Holiday Campaign on Thursday, Dec. 6 at the City Grill. The event will include a model safe holiday celebration.
Now in its second decade, the TEAM Georgia Safe Holiday Campaign urges businesses, private hosts and members of the hospitality industry to put the safety of employees, guests and patrons first during the holiday season. A long-standing community tradition for the Atlanta Hawks, the Safe Holiday Campaign now welcomes the Atlanta Thrashers to the TEAM. The Hawks' Al Horford, and the Thrashers’ Todd White will serve as Safe Holiday "spokesplayers." Both organizations are active members of TEAM Georgia and participate in TEAM Georgia's Designated Driver Booth program at Philips Arena.
The Safe Holiday Campaign involves more than 200 area bars and restaurants that display Safe Holiday information, offer a free non-alcoholic drink to designated drivers, and inform patrons about the free ride home available from Checker Cab. In cooperation with The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the campaign's 2007 Safe Holiday Guide will reach thousands of Georgia businesses and private hosts with safe celebration suggestions, plus safety and legal reminders for party goers.
In Georgia, 35 percent of traffic crash fatalities are alcohol-related.
Over the past decade, the highest number of crashes in Georgia occurred from Oct-Dec.
The chance of a crash being fatal is six times higher in crashes with an impaired driver.
For additional information, please call 404-261-6053 or email bonnie@teamgeorgia.net
SAFE HOLIDAY PHOTOS
Ron Fennel at Podium
Flanked by pictures of drunk driving victims, TEAM Georgia board member Ron Fennel stresses the importance of sobriety on Georgia's roads at the December 6 launch of the 2007 Safe Holiday Campaign. The launch drew together members of the Georgia State Patrol Nighthawks, the Atlanta Police Department's DUI Task Force, and Atlanta's hospitality industry.
Law Enforcement Against Drunk Driving
Members of the Georgia State Patrol "Nighthawks" and the Atlanta Police Department's DUI Task Force stand ready to defend Georgia's roadways against drunk driving. The law enforcement officials turned out Thursday in support of the launch of the TEAM Georgia 2007 Safe Holiday Campaign, which promotes safe and sober driving through educational materials, incentives for designated drivers at participating restaurants, and free rides home from Checker Cab.
Capt. Chuck Ulveling
Capt. Chuck Ulveling of the Georgia State Patrol details law enforcement efforts to reduce drunk driving on Georgia's roadways this holiday season at the December 6 launch of the TEAM Georgia 2007 Safe Holiday Campaign.
Martha Ann Berlin
Martha Ann Berlin shares the story of losing her 37-year-old brother, Jim McClain, his five-year-old daughter Mary, and a close family friend when the drunk driver of a tractor-trailer slammed into their vehicle in South Georgia nearly four years ago. Berlin was keynote speaker at the December 6 launch of the TEAM Georgia 2007 Safe Holiday Campaign, which promotes safe and sober driving through educational materials, incentives for designated drivers at participating restaurants, and free rides home from Checker Cab.
