Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Mothers Against Drunk Driving, better known by its acronym MADD, is a nonprofit organization founded for the purpose of preventing drunk driving. The grassroots movement began when Candace Lightner, whose 13-year-old daughter was killed in her Sacramento neighborhood by a drunk driver with previous drunk-driving convictions, and a group of her friends determined to get drunk drivers off the road. MADD was incorporated on September 5, 1980, on what would have been Cari Lightner's 14th birthday. Cindy [Page 980]Lamb of Maryland, whose infant daughter Laura became the nation's youngest quadriplegic as the result of an accident caused by a drunk driver (also a repeat offender), joined Lightner later that year and is considered a cofounder of MADD. Their stories replaced statistics with faces of ...