The nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP) announced that its annual St. Patrick’s Day SoberRide program will offer free rides to help prevent impaired driving across the Washington metropolitan area.
The service will operate from 4:00 pm on Tuesday, March 17 through 4:00 am on Wednesday, March 18. During that time, residents age 21 and older who have been drinking can request a ride home through the Lyft app by entering a SoberRide code in the app’s payment section. Each ride is free up to $15, and the code will be posted on the SoberRide website at 3:00 pm on St. Patrick’s Day.
The program is available throughout Lyft’s Washington D.C. service area, including the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in Maryland, and several counties and cities in Northern Virginia. WRAP said the initiative is designed to reduce impaired driving during a holiday when alcohol related crashes tend to increase, noting that more than one third of U.S. traffic deaths involve drunk drivers according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Since launching in 1991, the SoberRide program has provided more than 102,000 free rides to prevent impaired driving in the region.
