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'Pledge to Drive Sober' Tailgate Tour makes stop at Fred's in Tigerland on Friday ahead of Texas game
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BATON ROUGE - A national sober driving campaign is stopping in Baton Rouge this week at Fred's Bar.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been bringing its Pledge to Drive Sober campaign to colleges across the country this football season alongside "The Athlete's First Tailgate." The stop includes a tailgate from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday at Fred's Bar in Tigerland.
People at the event can try an impaired driving simulator to see how alcohol affects reaction time and judgment. They can also sign the Pledge to Drive Sober wall alongside LSU students and fans.
The Stampede, hosted by Vince Young, Mack Brown and Bob Ballou, will also go live on site from 7:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
LSU is currently trailing the University of Texas in pledges, so the tour is calling on Tiger fans to close the gap before kickoff. Its core message is that buzzed driving is drunk driving and that the safest play is deciding how to get home before the first drink and before kickoff, not after the fourth quarter.
In 20-25, 27 percent of crashes in Louisiana were alcohol related, with 211 fatalities. Nearly four in 10 people killed in alcohol impaired crashes nationally were not the impaired driver but passengers, people in other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.
Abigail Whitam with 2une In got a preview of the tailgate Friday morning.
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