Governor Hogan Honors Those Killed by Impaired Drivers at 18th Annual Maryland Remembers Ceremony

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan joined Maryland authorities officials connected Monday to grant those who mislaid their lives to impaired drivers.

The ceremonial comes close earlier the holidays, a clip wherever impaired driving accidents are common. Just past year, much than 1,300 Marylanders were arrested for impaired driving betwixt Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.

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During Monday’s ceremony, Hogan announced that Maryland is 1 of the 5 states to person a assistance from the Governors Highway Safety Association. The assistance volition connection impaired drivers $10 rideshare credits during the vacation play to trim the hazard of a deadly brushwood connected the road.

“No 1 should ever get down the instrumentality of a car and thrust impaired, and we anticipation that this originative caller inaugural volition promote much Marylanders to marque amended choices,” the politician said. “Even 1 decease is 1 excessively many, which is wherefore we indispensable proceed moving together, we indispensable proceed to archer the stories of those we person lost, and we indispensable proceed doing everything successful our powerfulness to prevention lives and to forestall aboriginal tragedies.”

Also successful attendance were 50 Maryland families, whose lives person been affected by impaired driving

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Kimberly Sizemore, a Maryland Department of Transportation employee, spoke astir her son, a 27-year-old who was killed by a drunk operator with 8 erstwhile DUI convictions.

“My anticipation successful sharing my family’s communicative is that we tin transportation our friends, families, neighbors to deliberation doubly earlier driving impaired,” Sizemore said astatine the ceremony. “We person each mislaid idiosyncratic oregon thing owed to the selfish prime of an impaired driver. We indispensable ne'er hide the wholly guiltless victims and their household members.”

Hogan, who conscionable past twelvemonth signed a bill imposing the maximum condemnation connected repetition drunk driving offenders, went connected to enactment the value of warring against impaired driving.

“Too galore Maryland families person been shattered and excessively galore lives person been chopped abbreviated due to the fact that of the reckless actions of an impaired driver,” Hogan said. “We are each present unneurotic contiguous to guarantee that these loved ones volition ne'er beryllium forgotten, and, together, we volition ne'er halt warring to forestall much needless deaths from drunk oregon drugged driving.”

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The authorities volition denote much accusation connected the rideshare recognition strategy and however it works aboriginal successful the week.

CBS Baltimore Staff