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MADD, law enforcement and RIDOT hope to deter impaired driving by honoring those who died Donita Naylor, The Providence Journal © The Providence Journal file / John Freidah In November 2005, Major Donald Dubois of the East Providence Police Department, comforted Thomas Cabral, brother of Swansea Police Lt. Robert Cabral, at the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Swansea. "He was everybody's best man," said Dubois, who had Cabral as the best man for his wedding. Mothers Against Drunk Driving and state and local law enforcement have teamed again to drive home the message that drunk-driving...

Central Falls is devoting its extra patrols to Amber Pelletier, who was a passenger in an impaired-driving crash on May 5th, 2019, in Boston. Amber, a 2016 graduate of La Salle Academy who had just finished her junior year at St. Leo University in Florida, died in the wreckage after the speeding vehicle she was in probably struck parked cars before it hit a cement planter in the median and flipped.  Amber’s mother, Rebecca Tinkham, said she appreciates that her daughter is being remembered but wants people to realize that “One person made a bad decision and as a result I have to grieve t...