Harris County, start the new year safely with free rides from Lyft Don t wait to get your code.
Photo by Kosamtu/Getty A lot of people are staying home this New Year s Eve, but if you re planning to go out then Lyft and TxDOT’s Houston Traffic Safety Coalition want to make sure you re getting around safely. They re giving Harris County residents free rides on December 31 (and into January 1) in the form of a code that s good for a $10 credit. But you might want to sign up for yours sooner rather than later there are only 3,000 discount codes available, and when they re gone, they re gone.
Suspended road tests give teens easier route to licenses
Associated Press
Teens across the country waiting anxiously to get their driver’s licenses were disappointed when most state motor vehicle departments suspended road testing for weeks and sometimes for months after the COVID-19 pandemic struck in March.
While many states have since returned to road testing, several others have opted to waive that requirement and allow teens to get their license anyway, at least for a time.
That’s only fair, state officials say. The teens typically have completed many hours of classroom instruction and supervised driving time. They need a license to get to jobs and help their families by running errands. In some states, new drivers ages 18 and over also can get waivers. The biggest impact, though, is on teenagers, since among new drivers, they take most of the road tests.
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SANTA FE – Law enforcement agencies will be out in force across New Mexico looking for drunk drivers for the holiday season to help make the roads in our state safer to travel. Through this effort NMDOT is partnering with the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and LYFT to offer safe rides in Dona Ana County for the holiday season, the New Mexico Department of Transportation announced.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly 30 people die in drunk driving crashes every day in the United States. That’s one person every 48 minutes. Drunk driving crashes claim more than 10,000 lives per year, according to NHTSA. The state traffic safety division reports so far this year 92 people have been killed in alcohol-involved crashes in New Mexico.
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