Fight Drunk Driving

The Century Council is a leader in the fight against drunk driving.

Since The Century Council's inception, we have supported a broad range of policy initiatives including Administrative License Revocation (ALR), Zero Tolerance, bans on open containers, longer look-back periods, stiffer penalties for test refusal and .08 BAC as part of a comprehensive plan to fight drunk driving. Learn more about our public policy initiatives. In the late 1990s, we spearheaded the effort to deal with a group of DUI offenders who were disproportionately responsible for alcohol-related traffic fatalities. We convened a national panel of safety experts to examine what became known as the hardcore drunk driver and to create the Hardcore Drunk Driving Sourcebook (PDF) which includes promising strategies, laws and programs that have shown to be effective in dealing with the hardcore drunk driver. The data were clear then, as now, that high BAC and repeat offenders make up a disproportionate share of drunk drivers. In 2008, seven out of ten drivers involved in an alcohol-impaired fatal crash had a BAC of .15 or above and these drivers were nine times more likely than a non-drinking driver to have a prior conviction for DWI. We promote blood alcohol education, judicial and prosecutorial education, and a coalition of safety organizations that promote state and federal legislation that targets hardcore drunk driving offenders.