{"id":883329,"date":"2026-09-04T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883329\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:06:15","slug":"madd-edmonton-uses-crash-car-display-to-drive-home-dangers-of-impaired-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/883329\/","title":{"rendered":"MADD Edmonton Uses Crash Car Display to Drive Home Dangers of Impaired Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img-2805-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"MADD Edmonton and Area Chapter's Crash Car Campaign on St. Albert Trail (Photo Credits - Daniel Barker-Tremblay)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MADD Edmonton and Area Chapter&#8217;s Crash Car Campaign on St. Albert Trail (Photo Credits &#8211; Daniel Barker-Tremblay)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maddchapters.ca\/edmonton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MADD Edmonton<\/a> is putting the consequences of impaired driving on full display on St. Albert Trail with its Crash Car Campaign, using a vehicle damaged in a real collision to remind drivers that getting behind the wheel impaired can have devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Tatham, President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/maddchapters.ca\/edmonton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton and Area MADD Chapter<\/a>, tells CFWE the display is more then twisted metal, it serves as a powerful reminder of the repercussions of driving impaired.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3142\/files\/2026\/09\/madd-crashed-car-campaign-display-audio-clip-01.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3142\/files\/2026\/09\/madd-crashed-car-campaign-display-audio-clip-01.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tatham shares a personal experience of losing her father to an impaired driver 12 years ago, adding that with the car display its a reminder of many families that have lost loved ones to impaired driving within their communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3142\/files\/2026\/09\/madd-crashed-car-campaign-display-audio-clip-02.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3142\/files\/2026\/09\/madd-crashed-car-campaign-display-audio-clip-02.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Partnering with Tuber Towing, <a href=\"https:\/\/maddchapters.ca\/edmonton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MADD Edmonton<\/a> Chapter\u2019s Crash Car Campaign started off by Blackjacks Roadhouse on highway 2 south of Edmonton by Nisku, then moving to Strathcona County for the first time ever, and finally landing on St. Albert Trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3142\/files\/2026\/09\/madd-crashed-car-campaign-display-audio-clip-04.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3142\/files\/2026\/09\/madd-crashed-car-campaign-display-audio-clip-04.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With ride services such as Uber, Lyft, cab rides and transit, a downtick in drunk driving has dipped, while impaired driving caused by drugs is rising. Allison reminds everyone has a responsibility to make safe choices and plan ahead to make it home safe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3142\/files\/2026\/09\/madd-crashed-car-campaign-display-audio-clip-03.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/3142\/files\/2026\/09\/madd-crashed-car-campaign-display-audio-clip-03.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more details on MADD Edmonton and Area, click <a href=\"https:\/\/maddchapters.ca\/edmonton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADD Edmonton and Area Chapter&#8217;s Crash Car Campaign on St. Albert Trail (Photo Credits &#8211; Daniel Barker-Tremblay) MADD&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[901,32920,49,48,32921,32927,4398,23752,32919,32924,32922,32923,32926,32918,7607,32925],"class_list":["post-883329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-alberta","tag-alberta-radio","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-radio","tag-classic-country","tag-country-music","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-radio","tag-first-nations","tag-fort-mcmurray","tag-grande-prairie","tag-hot-country","tag-indigenous","tag-media","tag-radio-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}